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THE 

NINETEEN HUNDRED & EIGHT 

CLASS BOOK 



Printed by 

THE GRAFTON PRESS 

NEW YORK 



THE 

NINETEEN HUNDRED & EIGHT 

CLASS BOOK 

A Record of the 
Senior Class of 
Columbia College 




Published by the Class in May 
Nineteen Hundred & Eight 






BOARD OF EDITORS 

KiTCHELii MoNCKTON BooRMAN Editor-ifi-Chief 

William Burgess Osterhout Business Manager 

WiLLAM Eastman 

Latham Ralston Reed 

Henry Mansfield Snevily 
Harold Fowler, Ex-Officio. 



Gift 
1I» University 

ikH 6 1910 



To 

JAMES HOWARD VAN AMRINGE 

Dean of the CoiiLEGE 

THIS BOOK IS EESPECTFUIiLY AND LOVINGLY DEDICATED 



CLASS OFFICERS 



SENIOR YEAR 



Harold Fowler President 

Fred H. Rindge Vice-President 

KiTCHELL M. Bookman Secretary 

WiLLLVM D. Murphy Treasurer 

JUNIOR YEAR 

Foster Ware President 

Fremont A, Higgins Vice-President 

KiTCHELL M. Boorman Secretary 

William D. Murphy Treasurer 

SOPHOMORE YEAR 

George M. Mackenzie President 

William R. Breck . Vice-President 

Walter G. Brandley Secretary 

Austin P. Montgomery Treasurer 

freshman year 

William B. Robinson President 

Edward P. Jobbins Vice-President 

Addison A. Vantine Secretary 

Robert P. Marshall Treasurer 



PRESIDENT'S LETTER 

To the Class of 1908: 

To each member of the class which is to go out from the 
University's gates on Commencement Day next, I commend a 
careful reading of the charming article, contributed to the 
March issue of the Columbia University Quarterly by Professor 
Peck, entitled "Ten Years on Morningside Heights," 

The graduation of your class marks the tenth Commence- 
ment Day celebrated in our own new and beautiful and, we 
believe, permanent, home. Professor Peck has expressed with 
great tenderness of feeling and genuine literary skill the Co- 
lumbia spirit of the older day and the Columbia spirit of the 
year which marks your graduation. 

In the short interval of ten years we have exchanged one 
form and mode of life for another, and in losing something of 
the picturesque, the sense of nearness and of having much in 
common, we have gained participation in a far richer and fuller 
and stronger life, and we have come to occupy before the 
world the place which is justly our University's due. 

You will, I am sure, not soon forget the years that you have 
passed on Morningside. The farther they fade into the dis- 
tance, the more they will seem to you to mean, and Columbia will 
become, I venture to predict, not less, but more, real and vivid 
as the years roll on. Nothing in our American life is finer than 
the attachment of the College and University man for his stu- 
dent home. Nothing else indicates so clearly the true and noble 
sentiment which binds us in future life to our years of prepara- 
tion, and which exalts those years of preparation to a peculiar 
place in our affections. 

It has been your lot, coming from distant parts of the land, 
to be welded during your student life into a single homogeneous 
body. You are now about to separate and go each his way into 
the work of the world. You will, however, never lose the traces 
of the unity and the homogeneity which you have gained here. 



President's Letter 

The name of this year will always have for you an attraction 
and a significance of its own, and I trust that it may be only 
the forerunner of many that will be rich in happiness, in use- 
fulness and in honorable service. 

With cordial greeting and warmest regard for each and 
all, I am, 

Faithfully yours, 

Nicholas Murray Butler, 

President. 
April 7, 1908. 



DEAN'S LETTER 

To the Class of 1908, Columbia College. 
Dear Fellow Collegians : 

I respond very gladly to your invitation to say a final word 
to you as students, just before you assume the dignity of 
alumni. 

I have said many words to you during your residence here. 
I would believe, if I could, that they have always been wise and 
helpful; but as that would be too great a demand upon self- 
confidence, I must content myself with the hope that some of 
them at least have been of service to you. 

If you have had justice done you, and have done justice to 
yourselves, what is it of most worth that you will carry away 
with you? It is not knowledge — of which, nevertheless, I hope 
you have acquired a great deal in many departments of learn- 
ing. It is training, through which knowledge has come to you ; 
it is character, without which knowledge is of comparatively 
little value ; it is a nice sense of personal obligation, without the 
possession of which by the principal part of a community, the 
community must suifer that "degeneracy of manners and con- 
tempt of religion" that, as Swift said, presage "the ruin of a 
state" ; it is an appreciation of the value of time and of the 
necessity of its careful apportionment, without which no man 
can attain the highest happiness or reach the full measure of his 
usefulness ; it is a capacity for friendship, fostered by associa- 
tion with each other in student activities of one kind or another 
and without which life must lack grace and charm; it is a store 
of recollections that grow more precious with the passing years 
and serve to mitigate the diminutions of age. 

"By ceaseless action all that is subsists" — that is true of 
nature ; it is true also of institutions of learning. Said Cowper 
in his "Task" : 

"Constant rotation of th' unwearied wheel 
That nature rides upon, maintains her health, 



Dean's Letter 

Her beauty, her fertility. She dreads 

An instant's pause, and hves but while she moves." 

Columbia "lives but while she moves." Since you were ad- 
mitted to the company of the elect in 1904, the College has 
"moved." Its relations to other parts of the University are 
different; courses of study have been readjusted and rearticu- 
latcd, the internal economy has been modified ; and the external 
appearance has been vastly changed for the better. At the 
time of your entrance, the College had no home of its own. It 
was camping out on its own domain ; it was a visitor, and not 
always a welcome one, among the children of its own begetting. 
Hamilton Hall, which was begun, finished and occupied within 
your time, is a beautiful home of the College — and it is more. 
It stands as the declaration of a policy, on the part of the 
Trustees, to foster the College and advance its interests. That 
is surely movement worth while and in the right direction, such 
as will strengthen Columbia in maintaining "her health, her 
beauty, her fertility." Her health would be impaired, her 
beauty marred and her fertility sadly restricted, if, by any 
catastrophe, the College should lose its distinct and rightful 
place in the general scheme. Any professional or specialized 
training should be preceded by a liberal, i. e. a liberalizing 
education, such as a good college is intended to give and does 
give. The importance of this antecedent and preparatory 
education, such as you have had, I commend to your favor and 
advocacy. Let no opportunity of upholding and urging it 
escape — and so do good to your Alma Mater and to the com- 
munity at large. 

With my best wishes to you all for useful, prosperous and 
happy lives, I am, with affectionate regard. 

Sincerely yours, J. H. Van Amkinge. 

Hamilton Hall, April 14, 1908. 



BIOGRAPHIES 



TOM MACKENZIE ALEXANDER was born in Brook- 
lyn, August 1-i, 1887, the son of Peter Alexander, 
C. C. N. Y., a lawyer, and of Jessie (Mackenzie) Alex- 
ander. He has lived most of his life in New York City and pre- 
pared for college at the Barnard School. 

Alexander is a member of the (|) 7'^ Fraternity. He was in 
the Varsity Show Chorus for four years. In his Sophomore 
year he played on the Golf Team and served on the Class Din- 
ner Committee. In Junior year ho made the Mandolin Club and 
was a member of the Executive Committee of the Players'. In 
Senior year he was Assistant Manager of the Gymnasium Team 
and played on and managed the Golf Team. He was Secre- 
tary of the Players' and served on the Commencement Commit- 
tee. He was a member of King's Crown, Civic Club, St. Paul's 
Society, Rowing Club and the Hockey, Baseball, Swimming and 
Track Associations. 

Alexander expects to enter the Columbia Law School after 
graduation. His home is at 76i St. Nicholas Avenue, New 
York Citv. 



WILLIAM HENRY ALLEN, JR., was born in Brook- 
lyn, December 7, 1884, the son of William Henry 
Allen und of Sophia (McLaughlin) Allen. He has 
lived in Brooklyn most of his life. He prepared for Columbia 
at the Boys' High School of Brooklyn. 

Allen was Associate I'iditor of the Jester in his Freshman 
year. He held a Brooklyn Scholarship for three years, receiv- 
mff his degree at the end of his Junior year. He was a member 
of the Barnard Literary Society. 

Allen expects to teach and write. His home is in Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 



GEORGE JARDINE BAGLEY was born in Rahway, 
N. J., December 8, 1885, the son of Valentine N. Bag- 
ley and of Agnes (McLeish) Bagley. He has lived 
most of his life in Rahway, N. J., where he prepared for college 
at the Rahway High School. 

Bagley took General Honors in Freshman, Junior and Senior 
years. He held a Faculty Scholarship in Sophomore year and 
a Morgan Scholarship in Junior and Senior years. In Senior 
year he was Secretary of the Barnard Literary Association 
and served on the Barnard-Zelosophic Debate Committee. He 
was a member of the Circulus Latinus, Anthon Club, Barnard 
Literary Association and the Christian Association. 

Bagley will enter business after graduation. His address is 
196 St. George's Avenue, Rahway, N. J. 



ROBERT HAROLD BAGNELL was born in Calmar, 
Iowa, August 11, 1887, the son of Robert Bagnell, a 
clergyman, and Mary Elizabeth (Wallace) Bagnell. 
He has lived in Sioux City, Iowa, and in New York City. He 
attended the Emmettsburg High School and Sioux City High 
School in Iowa and received his final preparation for college at 
the Columbia Grammar School in New York. 

Bagnell is a member of the B & 11 Fraternity. In Freshman 
year he made the Class Football and Track teams and served 
on the Cane Spree Committee. He sang in the Varsity Show 
Chorus in Freshman and Sophomore years and in the Glee Club 
for four years. He held the Morgan Scholarship in Freshman 
year and an Alumni Scholarship in Sophomore and Junior 
years. In Senior year he served on the Cap and Gown Com- 
mittee. He was a member of King's Crown and the Christian 
Association. 

Bagnell will enter the Columbia Law School. His address 
is 268 Stuyvesant Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



HAROLD PURDY BANKS was born in New York 
City, April 20, 1887, the son of John Henry Banks, 
Columbia '83, a mining engineer, and Emilie S. 
(Hultsch) Banks. He has lived most of his life in Boonton, 
N. J., and in New York City. He prepared for Columbia at 
the Lawrenceville School. 

Banks is a member of the /j @ Fraternity and the Senior 
Society of Nacoms. He played on the Varsity Tennis Team 
for three years, being Manager in Junior year and Captain in 
Senior year. In his Junior year he was Assistant Manager of 
the Varsity Hockey Team and was Treasurer of the Junior 
Ball Committee. He was elected President of King's Crown 
in Senior year and was Secretary of the Board of Student 
Representatives. In Freshman year Banks played on the Class 
Hockey Team, being also Manager, and was on the Class Pipe 
Committee and Banjo Club. In Sophomore year he served on 
the Cane Spree Committee. He was a member of the Rowing 
Club and the Hockey and Track Associations. 

Banks will remain at Columbia to take a degree in mining 
engineering and will practise that profession after leaving 
college. His address is 104 John Street, New York City, or 
Boonton, N. J. 



ABRAHAM BESSIE was born in Wahpeton, N. D., 
May 26, 1887, the son of Abraham Bessie, real 
estate agent, and Rose Bessie. He has lived most of 
his life in Wahpeton, N. D. He prepared for college at Wahpe- 
ton High School. 

Bessie in liis Freshman year was a member of the Freshman 
Debating Society and the Republican Club. In his Sophomore 
year he took Departmental Honors in Zoology. In his Senior 
year Bessie was a member of the Christian Association. He was 
a member of the Republican Club. 

Bessie will study medicine at the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, as he intends to make that his profession. His ad- 
dress is 991 Union Avenue, New York City. 



HAUHV iil.lDU wuN l)()iii ill New York City, Aufrust 12, 
IS.ST, I In- son of Niillmn Hijiir, (^olmiihiii 'HI, ii law- 
yci', nii(i <>r liily ( I'loiiick ) Hijiir. lie luis spriil, inosL 
ol" liis lilt' ill Aliisku and in Ni'W ^'()^k City. Ili' prepared foi 
rolIe^<> at I lie Horace Maim School. 

Ilijiir WMs in I lie cliorns ol" I lie Varsity Show in his Senior 
year and phiyt-d on llie Varsily llockey S(|uad. Aflcr j^radiia 
lion he will allend Ihe Cohiinlna Law School, as \iv intends to 
heconie a lnwyt-r. I lis lioiiie is at KJO West 75tli Street, New 
\'«)rk ( 'it v- 



PAUL BILLINGSLEY was born in New York City, No- 
vember 30, 1887, the son of John A. Bilhngsley, 
Wajnesburg College, a clergyman, and of Lucie 
(Smith) Billingsley. He has lived most of his life in Brooklyn 
and prepared for college at the Boys' High School of Brooklyn. 

Billingsley is a member of the & /] X Fraternity. He played 
on the Class Baseball Team in his Freshman year and on the 
Varsity Association Football Team for three years, being 
elected Captain for the following year in Senior year. He 
served on the Cap and Gown Committee in Senior year. He was 
a member of King's Crown, the Christian Association, being 
Science President in Senior year, and the Rowing Club. 

Billingsley will remain at Columbia in the Engineering 
Schools after graduation. His address is 446 Macon Street, 
Brooklyn, N. Y. 



LOUIS EDWARD BISCH was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
March 10, 1885, the son of Otto George Bisch, an 
artist, and of Dorothea L. Bisch. He has lived all his 
life in Brooklyn, and was a pupil in a private school there, and 
in Public School 33. He prepared for college at the Boys' 
High School, Brooklyn, entered Columbia in 1904, and gradu- 
ated in 190T. 

Bisch won Departmental Honors in Zoology in his Sopho- 
more year, and was a member of La Societe Fran9aise. 

In 1908 Bisch was Prosector in Physiology at the College of 
Physicians and Surgeons. His address is 199 South Third 
Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



VINCENT C. BONNLANDER was born in Brooklyn, 
N. Y., February 27, 1886, the son of Nicolaus Bonn- 
lander, a builder and contractor, and of Earnestine 
B. Bonnlander. He received his preparation for college at the 
Manual Training High School of Brooklyn and entered the 
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute at Troy, N. Y. 

Bonnlander entered the Class of 1908 at Columbia in Sep- 
tember, 1905. He was a member of the Churchmen's Associa- 
tion, the Christian Association and the Deutscher Verein. He 
will remain at Columbia for an engineering degree, as he in- 
tends to take up that profession. His address is 1509 DeKalb 
Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



KITCHELL MONCKTON BOOKMAN was born in 
Brooklyn, June 30, 1887, the son of Thomas Hugh 
Boorman, in the asphalt business, and of Charlotte 
Johnson (Say re) Boorman. He has lived all his life in New 
York City, and prepared for Columbia at the Barnard School. 

Boorman ran on the Varsity Track and Relay teams in his 
Junior and Senior years. He ran on the Class Track, Cross- 
country and Relay teams, being Captain of the latter in Senior 
year. He played on the Varsity Tennis Team for two years, 
and was Runner-up in the University Tennis Championship in 
singles in Junior year and in doubles in Senior year. In his 
Senior year he was elected Manager of the Varsity Tennis 
Team. 

In both Junior and Senior years Boorman was elected Class 
Secretary and was Editor-in-Chief of the Senior Class Book in 
Senior year. In Freshman and Sophomore years he was a Dele- 
gate of the Christian Association at Northficld, and in Junior 
year was Secretary of the ('hurchmcn's Association. 

He was a member of King's Crown, The Engineering Society, 
The Churchmen's Association, The Christian Association and 
the Track Association. 

Boorman will stay for two more years at Columbia to take a 
degree in civil engineering, as he intends to become a civil en- 
gineer. His home address is Riverside Drive and 173d Street, 
New York City. 



EDWIN MONTEFIORE BORCHARDT was born in 
New York City, October 17, ISS-i, son of Michaelis 
Borehardt, dealer in coffees and teas, and of Malvina 
(Schaehue) Borehardt. He has always lived in New York City, 
and went to Public School 74, C. C. N. Y., and New York Law 
School, entering Columbia in 1905. 

In Sophomore, Junior and Senior years he played on the 
Varsity Baseball Squad, and in Junior year on the Second V^ar- 
sity Team. He was a member of the Philharmonic Society in 
his Sophomore, Junior and Senior years, acting as Concert 
Meister in Junior year. He belonged to the Deutscher Verein 
and the Volpe Symphony Society, and was a member of the 
New York Evening High School Teachers' Association. • 

Borehardt expects to enter the United States Consular Ser- 
vice. His residence is 352 East 124th Street, New York City. 



WILLIAM GAGE BRADY, JR., was born in New 
York City, December 20, 1887, son of William 
Gage Brady, in the "mortgage investment" busi- 
ness, and of Sophia (Hill) Brady. He has lived all his life in 
New York City, and prepared for Columbia at Trinity School. 
Brady is a member of the z/ X Fraternity. In Sophomore 
and Junior years he was Associate Editor of Spectator, and in 
Junior year served as Chairman of King's Crown Building 
Committee. He was Manager of the Trophy Room, and mem- 
ber of the Senior Dinner Committee in his Senior year. He 
was a member of the Rowing Club, King's Crown, Civic Club 
and Republican Club. 

Brady intends to become a lawyer. He lives at 109 West 
122d Street, New York City. 



CLEMENT S. BRAIN IN was born in Riga, Russia, April 
30, 1887, the son of Dr. Simon M. Brainin, University 
of Dorp.it, a physician, and of Anna Brainin. He has 
spent most of liis life in New York City and prepared for col- 
lege at the De Witt Clinton High School. 

Brainin took General Honors in Freshman and Junior years 
and Departmental Honors in Mathematics for three years. He 
was the Harper Scholar for four years. In Senior year he was 
appointed Barnard Fellow in Physics for the following year. 
He was a member of the Freshman Debating Society, Circulus 
Latinus and the Clinton Club. 

Brainin expects to take graduate work in Physics and later 
teach Physics. His address is 1851 Madison Avenue, New York 
City. 



WALTER GEORGE BRANDLEY was born in New- 
ark, N. J., May 24, 1887, the son of George Charles 
Brandlcy, West Point, a civil engineer, and of 
Cajoline (Lurich) Brandley. He has lived most of his life in 
Newark, N. J., where he prepared for college at the Newark 
High School. 

Brandley is a member of the B (s) 11 Fraternity. In Fresh- 
man and Sophomore years he served on the Class Cane Spree 
Committee. In Sophomore year he was elected Class Secretary. 
He became Associate Editor, News Editor, Managing Editor, 
and in Senior year. Editor-in-chief of Spectator. In Junior 
year he was Associate Editor of Jester, and in Senior year ran 
on the Class Cross-country Team. He was a member of 
King's Crown, being Secretary in Senior year, St. Paul's Soci- 
ety, Philolexian Society, Blue Pencil and Christian Association. 
Brandley will remain at Columbia in the Law School, as he 
intends to practise law in New Jersey. His home is at 52 Hill- 
side Place, Newark, N. J. 



BARNAKD SAWYER BRONSON was born in Holley, 
Orleans County, N. Y., November 4, 1880, the son of 
Elisha Darwin Bronson, a builder, and of Jean (Milne) 
Bronson. He has lived most of his life in Holley and Geneseo, 
N. Y., and in New York City. He prepared for college at the 
Holley Academy and the Geneseo Normal School. 

Bronson is a member of the P /j Fraternity. He entered 
the Class of 1908 at Columbia in September, 1907, after teach- 
ing Physical Sciences in the Geneseo Normal School for five 
years and being some years in business. At Columbia he took 
General Honors in Junior year and received his degree in Feb- 
ruary, 1908. He was a member of the Philharmonic Society and 
the Christian Association. 



GEORGE HENRY BULL was born in New York City, 
February 5, 1886, the son of Robert Maclay Bull, Co- 
lumbia '80, and of Alice Brevoort (Potts) Bull. He 
prepared for college at St. Mark's School, Southboro, Mass. 
Bull is a member of the A W Fraternity and is a wearer of 
the "C." In Freshman year he ran on the Varsity and Class 
Track teams. He was in the cast of the Sophomore Show and 
Chairman of the Patroness Committee in Sophomore year, and 
served on the Junior Ball Committee in Junior year. He is a 
member of King's Crown, the Rowing Club, Track Association 
and the Philharmonic Society. 

Bull is undecided as to his future after graduation. His ad- 
dress is the Union Club, New York City. 



DOMINICK CASSETTA was born in Italy, May 30, 
1879, the son of Daniel Cassetta, deceased, and of 
Teresa Cassetta. He has spent most of his life in 
Long Island. He prepared for college at the New York Pre- 
paratory School, and spent one year in the University of the 
South and one year in Trinity College. 

Cassetta entered Columbia in Junior year. He will study to 
enter the Ministry. His address is 180 Broadway, Astoria, 
Long Island. 



CLARENCE ORION CHENEY was born in Poughkeep- 
sie, N. Y., July 10, 1887, son of Albert O. Cheney, 
real estate broker, and of Caroline (Adriance) Cheney. 
He has lived in Poughkeepsie until 1903, since when he has been 
in New York City. He prepared for college at Poughkeepsie 
High School and De Witt Clinton High School. 

Cheney is a member of the A X P Fraternity. In his Sopho- 
more year he won Departmental Honors in Zoology, and in his 
Senior year he was a Campbell Scholar. He joined the Chris- 
tian Association in Freshman year, and remained a member in 
his Sophomore and Junior years. 

Cheney is studying at the College of Physicians and Surgeons 
and will practise surgery. He is now Secretary of the Cheney 
Realty Corporation. His home is at 1215 Vyse Avenue, Bronx. 



MILI':S ClIESTKll (H)MS'IXH:K 



HAROLD AUGUSTUS CONTENT was born in New 
York City, October 19, 1887, the son of Harry Con- 
tent, a member of the New York Stock Exchange, and 
of Ada O. Content. He has hved most of his Hfe in New York 
City and received his preparation for college at the Columbia 
Grammar School. 

Content left college at the end of his Junior year. In Sopho- 
more year he was in the cast of the Sophomore Show and in 
the Chorus of the Varsity Show. In Junior year he was a Man- 
aging Editor of the Jester, Secretary of the Hartley Hall Com- 
mittee, Secretary of the Cross-country Club, member of King's 
Crown Building Committee, and was in the Varsity Show 
Chorus. He was a member of King's Crown and the Players' 
Club. 

Content will study law, as he intends to practise that pro- 
fession. His address is Hotel St. Regis, New York City. 



VICTOR WILLARD CUTTING was born in St. Louis, 
Mo., December 13, 1885, son of Willard H. Cutting, 
Massachusetts College of Pharmacy and Boston Insti- 
tute of Technology, a manufacturer, and of Elizabeth Cutting. 
He has lived most of his life in St. Louis, Colorado and New 
York. He prepared for college at High School of Commerce, 
New York. 

Cuttirig is a member of the 2 K Fraternity and ^ N E. 
In his Sophomore and Junior years he was Property Man of the 
Varsity Show, and in his Senior year a member of the Execu- 
tive Committee of the Players' Club. He was a member of 
King's Crown, Lacrosse Association, Christian Association and 
Columbia Players' Club. 

Cutting will enter the Columbia Law School, as the law is to 
be his profession. His address is 417 W. 117th Street, New 
York. 



IRVING COMES DEMAREST was born in Hackensack, 
N. J., October 11, 1885, the son of CorneKus B. Dema- 
rest, a merchant, and Ella M. Demarest. He has lived 
the greater part of his life in Hackensack, N. J. He prepared 
for college at the Hackensack High School, New Brunswick 
Preparatory School and Horace Mann School. 

Demarest took General Honors in Junior year and was elected 
to the ^ B K Honorary Fraternity. He will teach as a pro- 
fession. His address is 54 Essex Street, Hackensack, N. J. 



JAMES HENRY DONOHUE, JR., was born in New York 
City, June 8, 1887, the son of James Henry Donohue, 
C. C. N. Y. '81, in the U. S. Custom's Service, and of M- 
Katherine (Van Clief ) Donohue. He has spent most of his hfe 
in New York City and prepared for college at the C. C. N. Y. 
Preparatory School. He entered New York University and 
came to Columbia in Junior year. 

Donohue is a member of r/l Fraternity (New York Uni- 
versity Chapter). He was a member of the Glee Club in Junior 
and Senior years. He was Concert Meister of the Philharmonic 
Society, member of the Editorial Board of the Literary 
MontJily, and was elected Class Day Prophet. He was Epis- 
tetes of the Peithologian Society. 

Donohue will take graduate work at Columbia. He is unde- 
cided as to his future occupation. His address is 122 W. 12th 
Street, New York City. 



GUYON LOCKE CROC HERON EARLE was born in 
New York City, May 24, 1886, the son of Ferdinand 
Pinny Karle, in the real estate business, and of Lillie 
Jones (Smith) Earle. lie prepared for college at the Barnard 
School and Horace Mann School. 

Earle is a member of the <P F ^ Fraternity and the M 77 
Sophomore Society, and is a wearer of the "C" He rowed on 
the Varsity Crew in Sophomore year and on the Class Crew in 
Freshman year. He played on and managed the Class Basket 
Ball Team, and in Freshman year served on the Freshman Din- 
ner Committee. In Sophomore year he was on the Sophomore 
Smoker, Dinner and Show Committees. 

Earle left college at the end of his Sophomore year. He is at 
present engaged in the real estate business at 200 West 72d 
Street, New York City. 



WILLIAM EASTMAN was born in Roslyn, L. I., 
March 29, 1885, son of Henry M. W. East- 
man, lawyer, and Augusta (Rushmore) Eastman. 
He has lived in Roslyn, L. L, and in New York City all his Hfe, 
and received his preparation for college at the Polytechnic Pre- 
paratory School. 

In his Junior year he rowed on the Hartley Hall Crew, and 
ran on the Hartley Hall Relay Team in both Junior and Senior 
years. He was Secretary of the Poly, Prep. Club in his Junior 
year. In Senior year he ran on the Class Cross-country Team 
and on the Class Relay Team. He served as Chairman of the 
Hartley Hall Committee, member of the Hall Council, and 
Editor-in-chief of the Dorms. He was on the Senior Booh Com- 
mittee and the Commons Investigation Committee. He was a 
member of King's Crown, the Rowing Club and La Societe 
Fran9aise. 

Eastman will enter Columbia Law School next year. His 
home is in Roslyn, I . I. 



GEORGE BRUCE FINE was born in Harrison, N. J., 
August 28, 1884, the son of Richard De Mott Fine, 
an electrical engineer, and Mathilde (Torrens) Fine. 
He has spent most of his life in Harrison, N. J., and Arlington, 
N. J., and prepared for college at the Kearney High School. 
Fine is a member of the 2 A E Fraternity. He went to 
Dartmouth College for three years and entered Columbia in 
Senior year. After graduating from college he expects to 
teach as a profession. His home address is 54 Pavonia Avenue, 
Arlington, N. J. 



HAKUY rorrF.K fish «.is bom ill No« York I'ltv. 
April '^i). ISST, the son ot" lloi\-u-o W. Fish, o( i\\c 
Tottor rrintiii^ Pivss Comjvuw, ami of At\uj» (I'ot- 
tor) Fish. Ho l»as alwnvs livixl in Now York Titv. Ho prop;»ri\i 
for oollo^^ at tho Trinitv Scliool. 

Fish is a meiubor ot* tho >/> J N Fraternitv. Ho plavixl on tho 
Class HasoK'ill Toani ami was in tho Varsitv Show (.'horns in 
Fivshnian voar. In l\is Sonior voar ho sorvinl on tho I'om- 
monoomont I'onnnitKw Ho was a momhor ot' Kind's Trown .-in».i 
the Basoball Association. 

Fish will ontor bnsinoss aftor gradnatin^- t'roui oolloiiv. His 
home is at 81 West iK)th StrtxH, Now York Citv. 



GEORGE FREDERICK GILBERT, JR., was born in 
Marshfield, Mo., April 4, 1885, the son of George 
Frederick Gilbert, in the grocery business, and of 
Nancy Lee Gilbert. He has lived most of his life in Marshfield, 
Mo., and prepared for college at the Marshfield High School. 
Gilbert entered Drury College and came to Columbia in Junior 
year. He played in the Philharmonic Orchestra and was a 
member of the Christian Association and Philharmonic Society. 
He will probably take up teaching as a profession. His home 
is in Marshfield, Mo. 



EDWARD GOODMAN was born in New York City in 
1888, the son of Kdwurd Goodman, deceased, and of 
Kay Goodman. He has lived most of his Hfe in West 
End, N. J., and in New York City. He prepared for Columbia 
at the Horace JNIann School. 

Goodman was in the Varsity Show Chorus in Sophomore year, 
and in the cast of the German Show in Senior year. He held 
the Stuart Scholarship in Freshman and the A. A. Low Scholar- 
ship in Sophomore, Junior and Senior years. In Senior year 
he was Librarian of the Peithologian Society and Treasurer of 
the Socialist Society. He was a member of the Deutscher 
Verein, Freshman Debating Society, Philharmonic Society, 
Peithologian Society, Socialist Society and the Rowing Club. 

Goodman will take up literary work after leaving college. 
He lives at 106 West 86th Street, New York City. 



EARNEST FREELAND GRIFFIN was born in Tarry- 
town, N. Y., October 8, 1886, the son of Henry Clay 
Griffin, Columbia, a lawyer, and of N. J. Griffin. He 
has hved most of his life in Tarrytown, N. Y. He prepared for 
Columbia at the Washington Irving High School. 

Griffin was Treasurer of the Freshman Debating Society in 
Freshman year. In Junior year he debated in the Barnard- 
Philolexian Debate and was in the University Chorus. He was 
a member of the Barnard Literary Association, Debating 
Union and Christian Association. 

Griffin will remain at Columbia in the Law School after grad- 
uation, as he intends to practise law. His home is in Tarry- 
town, N. Y. 



ROBERT HERMAN HAGEMAN, JR., was born in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., February 7, 1882, the son of Robert 
Herman Hageman, a hardware merchant, and Jose- 
phine (Goetz) Hageman. He has Hved most of his Hfe in 
Brooklyn. He prepared for college at the Heideman School 
and the New York Preparatory School. 

Hageman was a member of the Freshman Debating Society 
in Freshman year. He was a member of the Democratic Club 
and Christian Association. He will take up law as his profes 
sion on graduating from college. His home is, at 228 Johnson 
Avenue, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



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LESTER HARRISSON was born in Brooklyn, December 
22, 1885, the son of James Orlando Harrisson, a law- 
yer, and of Gcorgianna Whitlock (Lent) Harrisson. 
He has lived all his Hfe in Brooklyn and prepared for college at 
the Boys' High School of Brooklyn. 

Harrisson graduated at the end of his Junior year, receiving 
General Honors and being elected to B K Honorary Frater- 
nity. As a graduate student he is a member of the Men's 
English Graduate Club and the Romance Club. 

Harrisson will study at Columbia for the degree of 
Ph.D. in Comparative Literature and expects to make litera- 
ture his profession. His home is at 397 Gates Avenue, Brook- 
lyn, N. Y. 



JOHN ODELL HAUSER was born in New York City, 
October 30, 1886, the son of John WilHam Hauser, a 
merchant, and Estelle Hauser. He has Hved most of 
his life in New York City and prepared for college at Lincoln 
Academy and De Witt Clinton High School. 

Hauser is a member of the 2 X Fraternity. In his Freshman 
year he was in the Varsity Show Chorus, and in his Sophomore 
and Junior years in the cast of the Show. He was Associate and 
Managing Editor of the Spectator in his Junior and Senior 
years, and also President of the Philharmonic Society. He was 
a member of King's Crown, the Blue Pencil Press Club and 
Philharmonic Society. 

Hauser's future occupation will probably be journalism. His 
address is 14! East 87th Street, New York City. 



B RUSSELL HERTS was born in New York City, May 
27, 1888, the son of Benjamin H. Herts, C. C. N. Y., 
an interior decorator, and of Belle (Seligman) Herts. 
He has lived most of his life in Center Lovell, Maine, and New 
York City. He prepared for college at the De Witt Clinton 
High School and the Woodbridge School. 

Herts was a member of the Freshman Debating Society and 
served on the Inter-Class Debate Committee. In Junior year 
he was Chairman of the Organization Committee of the Peitho- 
logian Society, and in Senior year was Secretary and Treasurer. 
He was a member of the Philharmonic Society, Chess Club, So- 
cialist Society, Peithologian Society, Architectural Society, 
Rowing Club and Gymnasium Association. 

Herts will go abroad to study decoration and will enter that 
business. His home is at 69 West 89th Street, New York City. 



FREMONT AMASA HIGGINS was born in New York 
City, September 4, 1886, the son of Edgar Fremont 
Higgins and of Eliza Snow (Grout) Higgins. He has 
lived all his life in New York City and prepared for college at 
the De Witt Clinton High School. 

Higgins was President of the Freshman Debating Society 
and was on the Class Debating Team, In Sophomore year he 
was Chairman of the Sophomore Debating Committee. In 
Junior year he was on the Philolexian Debating Team and won 
the Philolexian Prize Debate and Oration Contest. He was a 
member of the Columbian Board and was Class Vice-President. 
Higgins won the Curtis Medal Competition in Junior and Senior 
years. He was Vice-President of the Circulus Latinus in Junior 
year and took General Honors. He was a member of the Phil- 
harmonic Society, Sociological Society, Civic Club, King's 
Crown, Peithologian Society, Clinton Club and Christian Asso- 
ciation. 

Higgins will study and practise law. His address is 415 West 
146th Street, New York City. 



ALEXANDER HOLTZOFF was born at St. Petersburg, 
Russia, November 7, 1886, the son of Lazarus Holt- 
zoff', St. Petersburg University, a Custom House 
broker, and Mary Holtzoff. He has hved most of his hfe in St. 
Petersburg and New York City. He prepared for college at 
Ethical Culture High School. 

Holtzoff took General Honors for three years, taking Honors 
in Classics in his Freshman year. Honors in History in his 
Sophomore year, and made B K n\ his Senior year. He was 
a point winner in the cross-country and indoor handicap races, 
and, in his Senior year, ran on the Class Cross-country Team. 
Holtzoff was a member of the Freshman Debating Society, Cir- 
culus Latinus and the Republican Club. 

After graduation, Holtzoff will take graduate work at Co- 
lumbia, intending to teach eventually. His home address is 2577 
Eighth Avenue, New York City. 



NATHANIEL STANISLAUS HOYT was born in New 
York City, June 2, 1887, the son of Francis D. Hoyt, 
University of Vermont, a lawyer, and of Julia (Scam- 
mon) Hoyt. He has lived in Burlington, Vt., and in New York 
City. He attended the Xavier High School, and after one year 
in St. Francis Xavier College, entered the class of 1908 at 
Columbia in 1905. 

Hoyt was Associate Editor of Spectator and Vice-President 
of the Newman Club in Junior year. He played on the Golf 
Team in Senior year. He was a member of King's Crown, the 
Rowing Club and the Golf Club. 

Hoyt expects to enter a broker's office after graduation. His 
address is Lakewood, N. J., or 62 West 71st Street, New York 
City. 



GEORGE WASHINGTON JAQUES, JR., was born in 
Elizabeth, N. J., October 1, 1886, the son of George 
Washington Jaques, a metal broker, and of Mary 
(Voorhees) Jaques. He has spent most of his life in Elizabeth 
and Englewood, N. J. He prepared for college at the Horace 
Mann School and the Battin High School. 

Jaques was a member of the Freshman Debating Society in 
his Freshman year. In Junior year he was elected Treasurer of 
the Barnard Literary Society, debated in the Barnard-Philo- 
lexian and Barnard-Zelosophic of University of Pennsylvania, 
and qualified for the finals of the Curtis Medal Contest. In 
Senior year he was elected President of the Barnard Literary 
Association, made the Varsity Debating Team, and debated in 
the Barnard-Zelosophic Debate. He was elected Class Day 
Presentation Orator. He was a member of King's Crown and 
the Christian Association. 

Jaques will remain at Columbia in the Law School, as he in- 
tends to practise that profession. His home address is 112 
West Jersey Street, Elizabeth, N. J. 



Wni.lAIM Al.MN Kl-'.l.I.OCa;. .1H.. wms Uovu in Now 
\oilv ("ilv. April 17. lSvSr>, sc»u ol" WilliMm Alviu 
K<II(>y;;v. n |»l»;n»»\Mrist , juul ( 'Moo IrtMir (( 'luirrhiU) 
Krllo^"^". Ill' liMs livi'«l in lh>u\rr. N. V., Mini in Nrw York I'lty, 
»u\(l prrnMiinl (ov Columbia nl llorai'o Mniiu Sohool. 

lu^llo^"^' is M jnmibrv »»!' Il\i> vT /\ V I'^iMlrniil v. In lus Sopli- 
<M»M»r»> \vi\v \\c w«N iti llu- I'limus ot I In- \nrsilv Slu>\\ . Ilr was 
«'li'ilrtl to llir As,vio»i;il<' Ilo.inl oi' lln> i'oluinhio >V/'<</<//()» ill 
.Iiiiuoi' \{'!\v, and bi^ramr 'rr»>asuior ot' llio Christiatt Ass»>riMl i»>M 
in his Si-nioi- \o;\\\ Ilr was a »niM>»l>rr of Iviug^'s C'rown and \\\c 
Harnard I.iltMary Assurialion. 

KolK»^\!j; will v\\{c\- \\w ('olloy,o o( riiysioiatis ami Sur^v«»ns. 
llo livi's at KM. Wrs< ASIh ShvrJ. Nrw York t'itv. 




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AI,»'Ui:i) .lOVCl-: KM-M1:K whs bom in New Hnms- 
wick, N. ,1., ISS(J, llu" son of l-'ivdciio Hanull Kilmer, 
:i clit'iiiisl, MMtl of Annie (Killnirn) Kilnier. lie li.as 
speni most of liis life in New Ilrnnswiek, N. tl. lie prepared 
Tor enlle^H' ul llie Uul^ers I'n-paralory School and attended 
Hnlj4;ers (\)lle^«\ enfi-ring- Columbia in .Junior year. 

Kilmer is a member of I lie ^) /' l''ialernil y. In .lunior year 
li«' was \ lee PresidenI of llie IMnlolexiaii Stx'iely, an Associate 
Mditor of S /)(rt(it<)r, won llie IMiiloU-xian Speaking- Contest, 
and received lionoijible mention in tlie S|)iiit;ain Helles lietlri'S 
Conlesl. In Senior year lie was jui .Associate I'iditor of Jester, 
l'resitl(>nt of" the Antlion Club, aiul (pialilied for the 
finids of the Curtis Miulal Contest, lie was a member of Kind's 
Crown, rhilolexian Society, Civic Club, Antlion Club, Cburch- 
men's Association and llu' I)i>batini;- I'nion. 

Kilmer intends to I each I''ni;iisli alter y;raduation. I lis home 
address is IIT Collem- Avenue, New nrunswick, N. tl. 




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FREDERIC G. KISER was born in Brookside, Morris 
County, N. J., the son of Nathaniel Kiser, a teacher, 
and of Katheryn J. (Losey) Kiser. lie has spent most 
of his Hfe in Brookside, Ironia and Morristovvn, N. J. He 
attended sc1k)o1 in Brookside, N. J., then tauglit three years at 
Ironia, N. J., and tliree years at Morristown, N. J., while pre- 
paring for college. In September, 1904, he entered Waynes- 
burg College, Pa., and graduated with a B. S. degree in June, 
1907. He entered Columbia in September, 1907. 

Kiser expects to teach the year after graduation and perhaps 
will follow that profession. His home address is Brookside, 
N. J. 



RUBKllT FREDERICK LAU was born in Jersey City, 
N. J., December 21, 1885, son of Robert Julius Lau, 
clergyman, Plonorary Lecturer in Semitics at Colum- 
l)iji, and graduate of Central Pennsylvania College, and of Kate 
(Steffler) Lau. He has lived in Baltimore, Philadelphia, New- 
ark and New York, and prepared for college at Trinity School. 
Lau is a member of A X P Fraternity. He held the Alumni 
Association Sdiolarship in Freshman and Sophomore years, the 
Sloan Scholarship in Junior year, and the Scholarship of the 
Society for Promoting Religion and Learning. He was Treas- 
urer of Circulus Latinus in Junior year, and was Secretary of 
the Churchmen's Association, member of Anthon Classical Club, 
Christian Association and Barnard Literary Association. 

liau will enter the General Theological Seminary to study for 
the Episcopal ministry, and will also take post-graduate work 
in Semitics at Columbia. His address is the General Theological 
Seminary, Chelsea Square, New York City. 



LEICESTER CROSBY LEWIS was born in New York 
City, March 30, 1887, the son of George Washington 
Lewis and Maria Elizabeth (Sharkey) Lewis. He has 
spent most of his hfe in New York City and received his prepa- 
ration for college at the Trinity School. 

Lewis is a member of the A X P Fraternity. In Freshman 
year he was a Settlement Worker in Speyer School. In Sopho- 
more year he was Secretary of the Churchmen's Association 
and became President in his Senior year. He was Vice-Presi- 
dent of the Anthon Club and a member of King's Crown, Bar- 
nard Literary Society and the Christian Association. 

Lewis will take graduate work at Columbia and will later enter 
the General Theological Seminary to prepare for the Episcopal 
ministry. His address is 80 Perry Street, New York City. 



ALBERT ERNST LOBECK was born in New York City, 
April 9, 1889, the son of Adolph Christian Lobeck, 
Secretary of the Packard Commercial School, and of 
Celeste (Elmire) Lobeck. He has lived almost all his life in 
Haworth, N. J., and prepared for college at the Hackensack 
High School, entering Columbia in September, 1905. 

Lobeck won the New Jersey Alumni Association Prize and 
took honors in mathematics in Freshman year. In his Senior 
year he played on the Varsity Lacrosse Team and was an Asso- 
ciate Editor of Spectator. He was a member of the Deutscher 
Verein and the Christian Association. 

Lobeck will probably take a post-graduate course in mathe- 
matics, but is not definitely decided as to his future occupation. 
His home is at Haworth, Bergon County, N. J. 



WINFRED SCRIBNER MABEE was born in Tarry- 
town-on-Hudson, July 31, 1884, son of J. Walker 
Mabee, a bookkeeper, and of Julia E. Mabee. He 
has lived in Tarrytown, N. Y., and in Paterson, N. J., and 
prepared for Columbia at the Paterson High School. 

In his Freshman year Mabee won the Stuart Scholarship, 
and in his Sophomore year the Vanderbilt Scholarship, which 
he held during his Junior and Senior years. He won Third 
Year Honors in Mathematics in his Sophomore year, and Gen- 
eral Honors in his Junior year. 

Mabee intends to take up teaching mathematics as his pro- 
fession. His home is at 794f East 19th Street, Paterson, N. J. 



WILLIAM JOHN MacGREEVY was born in Spring- 
field, Ohio, January 12, 1886, the son of John 
MacGreevy, Wells-Fargo and Company, and of 
Cora Elizabeth (Rockfield) MacGreevy. He has lived in Colum- 
bus, Ohio, most of his life. He prepared for college at the 
Columbus Central High School. 

MacGreevy is a member of the 2 K Fraternity and Q N E. 
He was in the Varsity Show Chorus in Freshman year, and 
in Sophomore year he made the Sophomore Debating Team. 
In Senior year he was on the Philolexian Debating Team against 
Pennsylvania, and was elected Class Day Ivy Orator. He was 
a member of King's Crown, Freshman Debating Society and 
the Philolexian Society. 

MacGreevy will enter business after graduation. His per- 
manent address is 51 Broadway, New York City. 



GEORGE MINEll MACKENZIE was born in Lawrence- 
villc, N. J., August 13, 1885, the son of James Came- 
ron Mackenzie, Lafayette, Director of the Mackenzie 
School, and of Ella (Smith) Mackenzie. He has spent most of 
his life in Lawrenceville, N. J., and Dobbs Eerry, N. Y. He 
prepared for (lohunbia at the Mackenzie School. 

Mackenzie is a meml)er of the <P T d Fraternity and a wearer 
of the "C." He rowed on the \ arslty (^rew for two years and 
was on the V^arsity Hockey and Swimming teams. He was a 
member of the Class Crew and the Class Football, Hockey and 
Track teams. In Sophomore year he was elected Class Vice- 
President and Class President in .Funior year. He served on the 
Class Smoker Committee in Sopliomore year, and was Chairman 
of the .Junior Hall Committee in .lunior year, and was Vice- 
President of the llowing Club. He was a member of the 
Crewsters, King's Crown and the Rowing Club. 

Mackenzie received his degree at the end of Junior year. He 
is teaching at the Mackenzie School. Plis address is Dobbs 
Ferry, N. Y. 



ROBERT PALMER MARSHALL was born in Cleveland, 
Ohio, April 30, 1888, the son of Melville Tilden Mar- 
shall, in the American Sugar Refining Company, and 
of Katherine Mapes (Palmer) Marshall. He has lived all his 
life in Cleveland and New York, was a pupil in East High 
School, Cleveland, and prepared for college at De Witt Clinton 
High School, New York. 

Marshall was in the Varsity Show Chorus in his Freshman, 
Sophomore and Junior years, and Stage Manager of Soph. 
Show his Sophomore year. He was on the Spectator Board 
in Sophomore, Junior and Senior years, on the Junior Dinner 
Committee and Senior Class Dinner Committee. He was Class 
Treasurer in Freshman year, and Manager of Hockey Team 
in Senior year. He was a member of the King's Crown, 
Deutscher Verein, The Doones, St. Paul's Society, Philharmonic 
Society, Rowing Club, Fencing Club, Civic Club, Baseball Asso- 
ciation and Christian Association. 

Marshall is undecided as to his future occupation. He lives 
at 433 Central Park West, New York City. 



RALPH W. MOCKRIDGE was born in Chicago, 111., on 
July 1, 1886, the son of Whitney Mockridge, a mu- 
sician, and of Louise (Van Inwagen) Mockridge. He 
spent the early part of his life in Chicago and in London, Eng. 
After three years in Hanover, Germany, he came to New York 
City and entered Columbia. He received his preparation for 
college at the Colet Court and School House Schools in England 
and in the Gildomeister's Institute in Germany. 

In Freshman year Mockridge ran on the Class Track Team 
and was a member of the Track Association. He will probably 
enter business on leaving college and may take up a literary 
career. His address is the Hotel Walton, 70th Street and Co- 
lumbus Avenue, New York City. 



AUSTIN PHILIPS MONTGOMERY was born in Flush- 
ing, L. I., June 3, 1886, the son of John Howard 
Montgomery, Columbia '76, a lawyer, and of Annie 
Glover (Fitch) Montgomery. He has lived most of his life in 
New York City. He prepared for college at the Flushing In- 
stitute and Flushing High School. 

Montgomery is a member of the A W Fraternity and is a 
wearer of the "C." He ran on the Class Track Team in Fresh- 
man year, and in Sophomore ^^ear was Class Treasurer and 
served on the Class Dinner Committee. In Junior year he made 
the Varsity Cross-country Team and was a member of the 
Columbian Board. He was Manager of Varsity Track Team, 
Chairman of the Insignia Committee, and served on the Com- 
mencement Committee in Senior year. He was a member of 
King's Crown, the Newman Club, the Rowing Club and the 
Track Association. 

Montgomery is undecided as to his future after graduation. 
His home is in Flushing, li. I. 



11 I'.NHV NIOLSON M(UM{I': was horn m> I ImiiuIIoh, On 
I iMi'itt, Can., S(>|)U'nil)t't' I'.), IHHO, ilu> Non of Saniuol 
.liinu's M«)t)i'«-, M niMniil ticl niTi', luul «)(' Mrh-n (Jrr- 
liiiilt Mooif. lie liMN li\«(l in ('/UKulii, I'll IsImiIj'^' iind N«\\ 
\ oi Iv (ilv, luul |»i (iKi I (d loi' follcMi' al III'' I laiiiill on ( OIN'^iaU' 
liiNliliilc and \\ illislon S<'nMnai°v. 

Mooif IN a iiKiulnr ol' Mil- V / I'rah rnily and is a wtaicr «)!' 
I In- '*('." I If was «'l<»lfd IMana^n t)l' I In- N'arsil y ( 'i«>\ in S«'nn»r 
yonv. l\v was a IJule^alr l«» lla- Shidt-nls' V»)lunl«'i'i- Mov(>uiont, 
al NaMlivillt' in So|>honi<>r«' v«'ar. In .Innior v«'nr Monr«' was on 
llif llai'lii'V Hail Crt'w, Cliairnian Itarllt'V Mall ( '«Mnnnl Ice, and 
AsNOcialf I'.ddor of I he l>i>iiiis. lie is n nuiiilxr it{' Kind's 
('I'own, IIk' l{o>\in^' ('lul» and llir ('Inislian Assm-iat i(»n. 

Moon- «ill laKi' np .s«'l I It'inrnl work or Icachinf^-. His lntin«' 
is al ;5 l-'nllon SIrc.l, IM I sl.iii •-•, Vn. 



WILLIAM DEACON MURPHY was born in New 
York City, August 1, 1887, the son of William 
Dennistown Murphy and Rosalie (Hart) Murphy. 
He has lived most of his life in New York City, and prepared 
for Columbia at Drisler School and Columbia Grammar School. 

Murphy was elected Manager of the Varsity Fencing Team 
in Junior year, and Manager of the Association Football Team 
in his Senior year. In both Junior and Senior years he was 
elected Class Treasurer. He became a News Editor of the 
Spectator and President of the Fencers' Club in Senior year. 
Murphy was a Delegate to the Intercollegiate Civic League Con- 
vention and served on the Cap and Gown Committee. He was 
a member of the King's Crown, Deutscher Verein, Barnard 
Literary Association, Politics Club, being elected President in 
Senior year, Rowing Club and the Baseball, Swimming and 
Track Associations. 

Murphy intends to become a lawyer, and will enter the Colum- 
bia Law School after graduation from college. He lives at 40 
East 49th Street, New York City. 



JOHN CLEMENT NEGUS was born in Brooklyn, N. Y., 
January 7, 1886, the son of John Stewart Negus, a 
manufacturer, and of Katherine B. Negus. He has 
spent most of his hfe in Brooklyn and New York City. He pre- 
pared for Columbia at the Adelphi Academy in Brooklyn. 

Negus is a member of the J @ Fraternity. He was a mem- 
ber of the Freshman Fencing Team, and in Sophomore year was 
Manager of the Varsity Fencing Team and Vice-President of 
the Fencing Association. He was a member of King's Crown 
and the Deutscher Verein. 

Negus intends to enter his father's business after graduation. 
His address is 149 Madison Avenue, New York City. 



HENRI-CESAR OLINGER was born in New York City, 
November 5, 1887, the son of Alphonse Jacques din- 
ger, D.D., University of Geneva, a retired minister, 
and Cesarine (Michel) Olinger. dinger prepared for Columbia 
at Woodbridge School, New York City, and in Paris schools. 
He has lived most of his life in Paris and New York. 

Olinger won a Schermerhom Scholarship in his Freshman 
year, and in his Sophomore year was a member of the cast in 
the French Play and Assistant Manager of the Play. In his 
Junior j^ear he was a member of the cast of the French Play 
and also Manager. In his Senior year he was also a member 
of the cast of the French Play, besides being coach of the Plaj'. 

He is a member of the Societe Fran^aise, being Treasurer in 
his Junior year and President in his Senior year. Olinger is 
also a member of the Christian Society and King's Crown. 

His future occupation will be teaching French. His address 
is 625 Lexington Avenue, New York City. 



WILLIAM BURGESS OSTERHOUT was born in 
Tunkhannock, Pa., September 15, 1886, the son of 
Wm. B. Osterhout, U. S, Naval Academy, Annapo- 
lis, a civil engineer, and of Jessie (Burgess) Osterhout. He has 
lived most of his life in Pennsylvania and Freeport, N. Y. He 
prepared for Columbia at Freeport High School and Pratt 
Institute, Brooklyn. 

Osterhout is a member of the A X P Fraternity. In his 
Freshman year he rowed on his Class Crew at the Fall Regatta 
and in the Columbia- Yale Freshman Race at New Haven. He 
also rowed on the Freshman Crew at Poughkeepsie. In his 
Sophomore year he rowed on his Class Crew and in the Harlem 
Regatta. He was Business Manager of the Senior Class Book 
in his Senior year. He was a member of King's Crown, La 
Societe Fran^aise, Rowing Club and the Freshman Debating 
Club. 

Osterhout will remain at Columbia to study law, as he intends 
to make that his profession. His home address is 98 South 
Long Beach Avenue, Freeport, N. Y. 



ARTHUR HAMILTON OTIS was born in Tivoli-on-the- 
Hudson, N. Y., May 6, 1885, the son of Charles Mon- 
roe Otis, a constructor of bridges, and of Linne Marie 
(Sweet) Otis. He has Hved most of his life in Tivoli, Albany 
and New York City. He received his preparation for college 
at the Morris High School. 

Otis is a member of the ^ K 2 Fraternity. He was in the 
cast of the French play given by the Societe Fran^aise, and 
served on the Patroness Committee of that society in Junior 
year. In Senior year he was Secretary of the Societe Fran^aise. 
He was a member of the Philharmonic Society. 

Otis will remain at Columbia to take graduate work in the 
School of Philosophy. His address is Tivoli-on-the-Hudson, 
N. Y. 



HAROLD PALMER was born in Celtona, N. J., August 
11, 1885, the son of Charles G. Palmer, Cornell '76, 
In business, and of Julia P. (Brainard) Palmer. He 
received his preparation for Columbia at the Collegiate School 
in New York City. 

Palmer is a member of the A A ^ Fraternity. He intends 
to go into business after graduating from college. His address 
is 344 West 84th Street, New York City. 



WILLIAM D. POLLOCK was born in Brooklyn, N.Y., 
June 29, 1884, the son of William Pollock, a 
printer, and Lucretia (Denton) Pollock. He has 
lived most of his life in Richmond Hill, N. Y., and prepared for 
college at Richmond Hill High School, Rutgers College, Brown 
University and Cornell University. 

Pollock is a member of theX y'^Fraternity (Brown Chapter) 
and entered Columbia in his Junior year. In his Junior and 
Senior years he was a member of the Varsity and Class Track 
teams. 

Pollock will teach English in Secondary Schools. His ad- 
dress is Chestnut Street, Richmond Hill, N. Y. 



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LATHAM RALSTON REED was born in Flushing, Long 
Island, July 8, 1886, the son of Latham Gallup Reed, 
Columbia '76, and Cambridge '80, a lawyer, and of 
Mary Newbold (Welsh) Reed. He has lived most of his life in 
New York City and on the Jersey coast. He prepared for 
Columbia at St. Paul's School, Concord, N. H. 

Reed is a member of the A W Fraternity. He was Captain of 
the Class Hockey Team, Manager of the Sophomore Show, and 
Second Assistant Manager of the Varsity Show. He served on 
the Junior Ball Committee and was Assistant Crew Manager. 
In his Senior year he played on the Varsity Hockey Team and 
served on the Class Book Committee and the King's Crown 
Council. Reed was a member of King's Crown, the Civic Club, 
the Rowing Club and Hockey Association. 

Reed is undecided as to his occupation after graduation. His 
address is 147 East 61st Street, New York City. 



FRED PIAMILTON RINDGE, JR., was born in Mt. 
Vernon, N. Y., September 3, 1886, the son of Fred H. 
Rindgc, in business, and of Bertha W. Rindge. He has 
lived most of his Hfc in New York City, and prepared for col- 
lege at the De Witt Clinton High School. 

Rindge was All-around Gymnastic Champion in Freshman 
year, and was on the Varsity Gymnasium Team. In Sophomore 
year he was a Delegate of the Christian Association to the Con- 
vention at Nashville. In Junior year he became Vice-President 
of the Barnard Literary Association, General Treasurer of the 
Christian Association, Delegate to Ithaca and Northfield, and 
was in the University Chorus. Rindge took General Honors in 
Junior and Senior years. In Senior year he was President of the 
Barnard Literary Association and the Christian Association, 
Class A^ice-President, Class Day Valedictorian, served on the 
Commencement Committee, and won the Alumni Prize. Rindge 
will remain at Columbia for an M. A. degree in English, and 
intends to take up teaching and literary work. His home is at 
78 Manhattan Avenue, New York City. 



MARSHALL R013IE was born in New York City, Octo- 
ber J21, 1884, the son of Louis Robie, St. Mary's Col- 
lege, a theatrical manager, and of Elizabeth (Bar- 
ker) Robie. He has spent most of his life in New York City. 
He attended the De Witt Clinton High School, Mt, Hermon 
School, Hackensack High School, Oberlin Academy and Oberlin 
College. 

Robie entered Columbia from Oberlin in Sophomore year. In 
Junior year he founded the Dorms, a weekly publication devoted 
to student Vd^ in Hartley and Livingston Halls, being its first 
editor. He held the Campbell Scholarship in his Junior year. 
He was a mejnber of the Democratic Club, serving on the Exec- 
utive Committee, and the Christian Association. 

Robie will take up journalism after leaving college. His 
home is in Oradell, N. J. 



CIIAULIOS M. JtOLKMK, .III., wns l).)rii in Now York 
Cily, Drcnnhor "^O, 1KS(), llio son of Cluirlcs M. Rolkcr, 
)i miiiiii<4' cxpfil., nud ol ('Mlisla ( \ ;in lloiwi) Rolkor. 
lie lias lived I lie <4r('.'ilcr pari of his life iti l^'raiuH', (Jcnit.my 
and I'iii^land. lie prcpaicd for collc/j;!* al [he Hiownsfyrovi: 
School, VVorc(>st,orsliir(>, lOn^'land, and I he Hcikt'lcv School, New 
York. 

Kolkcr is a nicnihcr of the / '/^ Fral.crnil.v, and is a vvoaror 
of I he "('." lie wns on I he Varsity Truck Team for throe years, 
and was on ll\t> ("lass Track Team and llockey Team. In I'^resh- 
niun year he was in the Varsdy Show ('horns and ni Sophomore 
year was a member ol' Ihe casi of llu> Sophomore* Show, lie was 
( 'h;iirm;in of Ihe Class Dinner Commillee in .Innior year. He 
was a member of Kin<»'s Crown, I h(> I'hilharmoiiic Socioly, the 
Howini;- Cinb and llu> Trai-k and Hookey assooiations. Ho re- 
ceived his deo-rei" at the etui of his .lunior year. 

Holk«'r is al pi-esenl en^a/^i-d in I h(> bond ;uid brokerage' busi- 
ness. His address is I !i7 Hiversidc Drive, New York City. 



EDWIN JOSEPH ROSENBAUM was born in Ports- 
mouth, Va., March 15, 1887, the son of Morris Rosen- 
baum, in the clothing business, and of Jennie (Samu- 
els) Rosenbaum. He has lived most of his life in Portsmouth, 
Va. He prepared for college at the Norfolk Academy. 

Rosenbaum ran on the Freshman Track Squad in Freshman 
year. He was a member of the Southern Club. He received his 
degree at the end of his Junior year. 

Rosenbaum intends to enter the real estate business. His 
home is at 207 Court Street, Portsmouth, Va, 



MARCUS ADOLPHUS ROTHSCHILD was born in 
Woodville, Miss., July 4, 1887, the son of Morris H. 
Rothschild, a cotton merchant, and of Emily Blanche 
(Hart) Rothschild. He has lived in Woodville, Miss., and pre- 
pared for Columbia at the Randolph Macay Academy and at 
the Horace Mann School. 

In his Freshman year he was on his Class Track Team and 
on the Cane Spree Squad. He was also a member of the Fresh- 
man Debating Society. In his Freshman year he joined the 
Chemical Society and the Southern Club, and in his Sophomore 
year he became a member of the Baseball Association and the 
Track Association. 

Rothschild is now studying at the College of Physicians and 
Surgeons, and intends to enter the medical profession. His 
home is at Woodville, Miss. 



EDWARD CURTIS ROUSE was born in New York City 
in 1886, the son of John E. Rouse and of Elizabeth L. 
Rouse. He has spent most of his hfe in East Orange, 
N. J., and prepared for college at the East Orange High 
School. 

Rouse is a member of the A T ^ Fraternity. He was a 
member of the Glee and Banjo Clubs for three years, being 
Manager of the Musical Clubs in Senior year. He was Secre- 
tary of the Philolexian Society in Sophomore year and Presi- 
dent in Senior year. In Junior year Rouse was a member of the 
Columbian Board, and in Senior year was Librarian of King's 
Crown and a member of the Non- Athletic Council and Debating 
Union. He held a Faculty Scholarship in Sophomore and 
Junior years, and the Clark Scholarship in Senior year. 

Rouse is undecided as to his occupation after leaving college. 
His home is in East Orange, N. J. 



SAMUEL MARTIN SHACK was born in Russia, Decem- 
l)rr 5, 1883, the son of Morris Shack, a teacher, and of 
Hertha (Marshak) Shack, lie has hved most of his hfe 
in New York City and entered Cohnnhia from C. C. N. Y. in 
Junior year. 

Shack was elected Secretary of Sociological Society in his 
Junior year. He received a B.S. degree from Columbia in 
October, 1907. He will take up teaching as a profession. His 
address is 33G Henry Street, New York City. 



AGHASIE SAMUEL SHIMMON was born in Gugtapa, 
Urmiah, Persia, September 18, 1881, the son of Malik 
Shimmon and of Nargis (Baba) Shimmon. He has 
lived the greater part of his life in Gugtapa and in New York 
City, and prepared for college at Hoosac School, New York, 
and Oberlin Academy, at Oberlin, Ohio. He entered Columbia 
in the Fall of 1905, having taken his Freshman year at Oberlin 
College. 

Shimmon was a member of the Varsity Wrestling Team for 
three years, being elected Captain in his Senior year. In his 
Sophomore year, his first at Columbia, he played on the Class 
Football Team, and spreed in the 140 lbs. Cane Spree. In his 
Senior year Shimmon wa* Captain of the Hartley Hall Track 
Team, and Assistant Manager of the Trophy Room, and served 
on the Commencement Committee. He was a member of King's 
Crown, La Societe Fran9aise, the Churchmen's Association and 
the Christian Association. 

After leaving college Shimmon expects to become a merchant, 
exporting and importing between New York and Persia. His 
address is New York City, or if abroad, Gugtapa, Urmiah, 
Persia. 



JOHN EYRE SLOANE was bom in South Orange, N. J., 
September 16, 1886, son of T. O'Connor Sloane, con- 
sulting- engineer and author, and graduate of St. Fran- 
cis Xavier College and School of Mines, Columbia University, 
and of Alice E. Sloane. He has hved most of his life in South 
Orange, N. J., and in Great Neck, Long Island, and prepared 
for Columbia at Dearborn-INIorgan School and at Carteret 
Academy. 

In his Freshman year Sloane was on the Cane Spree Squad 
and Manager of the Freshman Baseball Team. He was Asso- 
ciate Editor of Columbia Spectator in Sophomore year, and 
Business Assistant in Junior year. In Senior year he served on 
the Class Dinner Committee. Sloane was a member of the New- 
man Club, being President in his Senior year, and of King's 
Crown, Philharmonic Society, Dcutscher Verein, Rowing Club, 
Baseball Association, Hockey Association and Fencing Club. 

Sloane will enter business. His home is 55 Montrose Avenue, 
South Orange, N. J. 



HENRY MANSFIELD SNEVILY was born in Brook- 
lyn, October 8, 1886, the son of Mansfield Buel 
Snevily, an oil manufacturer, and of St. Claire 
(Creevey) Snevily. He has lived most of his life in Brooklyn, 
and prepared for college at Brooklyn Boys' High School. 

Snevily is a member of the 2 X Fraternity and a wearer of 
the "C." In his Freshman year he rowed on the Class Crew 
against Yale at New Haven and was a Substitute at Pough- 
keepsie. In his Junior year he rowed on the Varsity Crew at 
Poughkeepsie and was also Assistant Manager of the Wrestling 
Team. In his Senior year, Snevily was Manager of the Wres- 
tling Team and a member of the Senior Class Book Committee. 
He was a member of King's Crown and the Crewsters. 

Snevily's future occupation is undecided. His address is 81 
Macon Street, Brooklyn, N. Y. 



t^KAMv Honi'irr svvAU'rvvon'r wms born in Niw 
I York I'ilv, April 'iH, IHH7, IIh> son of l-'innk (J. Swarl- 

wonl, ill I In- rt'.'il tsliilc liiisiiirss, mikI nl" Mmi ;4Ui'rilc E. 
(\\'il«"s) SwM il « (Mil . ||(> liMs livid iiiosl ol" Ills lilr 111 Sojirsdiile, 
Wcslflu'slcr ('oiiiiiv, N. ^'.. Mild ill New ^ ork Cilv. .'iiui pro- 
part'd Tor ri>ll<'fU«' nl I lie \Vliilt> I'ImIiis lli^li St'liool. 

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on lli(> ('I.Mss n.'isrh.'ill 'r«Miii in l''r(sliiiiMii yc-ir mik! in .Iiiilior 
y«vir iu" pl(iy<"<l on I he N'arsily Ljutossc 'l\>nin. IIo in.'ult> I he 
(ilrr ('lull in Soplioiiior«> v<"iir, mikI in Senior yeiir ums I'rrsideiit 
of Ihc riiilol(<\iiin Socit'l v mid Nice I'rt'sidrnI »)!' llie Lnerossc 
AsNoeuil mil. 1 1«" w.'is m iihiuIxm- oI Ivin^'s Crown. 

SwMilwoiil will reniMiii nl ( '(>liinil)iM lor Iwo yeni's in Ihe Law 
Seliool. as lie inlt-nds lo praelisi* law. His home is in Searsdale, 
VVeslehesIti- Coiinlv. N. \ . 



EDWARD BENJAMIN TOWN SEND was born in Aus- 
tin, Tex., November 7, 1879, son of Col. B. R. Town- 
send and of Alice F. (Merriman) Townsend. He 
has lived in Texas, Connecticut, Washington, California, Can- 
ada, Philippines, China, Japan, Alaska and New York. 

Townsend is a member of the A X P Fraternity. In Sopho- 
more year he won the lightweight bout in the Freshman-Sopho- 
more Cane Spree. He was elected to the Columbia Chemical So- 
ciety and also to the American Chemical Society in his Senior 
year. 

Townsend has decided to take up Chemistry as his profession. 
His home is in Wallingford, Ct. 



ADDISON ALLEN VAN TINE was born in New York 
City, November 21, 1885, the son of Thomas Hart- 
well Van Tine and Adelaide (Allen) Van Tine. He 
has spent most of his life in New York City and Oceanic, N. J. 
He prepared for Columbia at the Collegiate School. 

Van Tine is a member of the 2 A E Fraternity, the Senior 
Society of Nacoms, the M II Sophomore Society, and is a wearer 
of the "C." In liis Freshman year he was Class Secretary, and 
in Sophomore year was Associate Editor of Spectator, served 
on the Class Dinner Committee and was in the Varsity Show 
Chorus. In Senior year he was Manager of the Varsity Base- 
ball Team and served on the Commencement Committee and on 
King's Crown Council. 

Van Tine will enter the Law School after graduating from 
college. His home is at 567 West End Avenue, New York City. 



FOSTER WARE was born in New York City, December 
30, 1886, the son of James E. Ware, an architect, and 
of Edith (Backus) Ware. He has always hved in New 
York City and prepared for college at the De Witt Clinton 
High School. 

Ware is a member of the J K E Fraternity and the Senior 
Society of Nacoms, and is a wearer of the "C." In Freshman 
year he made the Varsity Track Team and was in the Varsity 
Show Chorus. In Junior year he was elected Class President, 
Junior Vice-President of King's Crown, and served on the Foot- 
ball Committee. Ware became Editor-in-chief of Spectator, 
Senior Vice-President of King's Crown, member of the Student 
Board of Representatives, member of the Jester Board, served 
on the Commencement Committee, and was an undergraduate 
director of the Rowing Club in Senior year. He was a member 
of King's Crown, the Blue Pencil and the Doones. 

Ware is undecided as to his occupation after leaving college. 
His home is 1285 Madison Avenue, New York City. 



JOHN NEVILLE WHEELER was born in Yonkers, N. Y., 
April 11, 1886, the son of Chas. W. Wheeler, a civil 
engineer and architect, and of Katherine (Neville) 
Wheeler. He has lived most of his life in Yonkers, N. Y., and 
prepared for college at Yonkers High School. 

Wheeler is a member of the 2 X Fraternity and the M 11 
Sophomore Society. He played on his Freshman Baseball Team 
and in his Junior and Senior year ran on the Varsity Cross- 
country Team. In his Junior year he also ran on Varsity Track 
Squad. In his Senior year he was elected Class Historian and 
was on the Senior Dinner Committee. He was a member of 
King's Crown, Rowing Club, Press Club and Baseball Associa- 
tion. 

Wheeler's future occupation is undecided. His home address 
is 149 Glenwood Avenue, Yonkers, N. Y. 



Claki<:n('i<: i^dwaud vvinciii.ll whs Immm in 
Oniiiov, N. .1., April 10, IHH7, llic son of AIImi'L Win- 
chcll, (Icfoiisid, Hiul of VAUn (Smilli) VViiulicll. lie 
has s|)riil, niosl. of liis life in Moiilclair himI \V<'sI Orun^i', N. J. 
He |)i"<'|)nn>(l for (•<)ll('0'i> nt tlir West ()raM<;'(> ni<^'li Scliool. 

Wiiiilii'll is a iiit'iiihri- of I In- 2i' /V I''ralt'i-iiil y. In I'^rt'slniian 
year ho was on lln' Class Cane SpriT S(|na(l and I'^i-cslnnan l)o- 
bat.in<^" Social v- In Senior v*''ii' he was a snhslilule on llio 
Vaisilv Lacioss*' 'i'eaiii. lie was a ineniber of I he Itaiiiard 
Literary Society, Anthon Club, Churehnieirs Assoi'ial ion, Ke 
piihlican Clnl) ami tlu> Christian Association. 

Wiiwliell inletnls lo »'nter business after ^"nulual in;^; from 
colleii-e. I lis home a<i«lr«ss is t l'',lm Slrt>i-t, West Oranji-e, N. .1. 



PAUL WILLIAM HENRY WINDELS was born in 
Brooklyn, N. Y., December 7, 1888, the son of John 
Henry Windels, and of Pauhnc (KHnk) Windels. He 
has lived most of his life in Brooklyn. He prepared for college 
at the Manual Training High School in Brooklyn. 

Windels was Librarian of thePhilolexian Society in his Junior 
year, and Librarian of the Peithologian Society and Treasurer 
of the Anthon Club in his Senior year. He was a Campbell 
Scholar in Junior year and a University Scholar in Senior year. 
He was a member of the Freshman Debating Society, King's 
Crown, Philolexian Society, Chess Club, Civic Club, Republican 
Club, Circulus Latinus, Anthon Club, Peithologian Society and 
the Christian Association. 

Windels will remain at Columbia in the Law School, as he 
intends to become a lawyer. His home is at 162 Lee Avenue, 
Brooklyn, N. Y 



BYRD DOUGLAS WISE was born in Richmond, Va., De- 
cember 21, 1886, the son of John Sergeant Wise, Uni- 
versity of Virginia, a lawyer, and of Eva (Douglas) 
Wise. He has spent most of his life in New York City. He 
attended the De Witt Clinton High School, Virginia Military 
Institute and the Columbia Grammar School. 

Wise is a member of the B @ 11 Fraternity. He won the 
Lightweight Cane Spree in Freshman year, and was Chairman 
of the Cane Spree Committee in Sophomore year. He received 
his degree at the end of his Junior year. 

Wise will remain at Columbia in the Law School after gradu- 
ation, and intends to practise law in New York. His address is 
154 West 76th Street, New York City. 



LOUIS E. WOLFERZ was born in New York City, July 
8, 1886, the son of Louis Wolferz, a Presbyterian 
clergyman, and of Rosalie (Jose) Wolferz. He has 
lived most of his life in Brooklyn, Southhold, L. I., and New 
York City. He prepared for college at the Boys' High School 
of Brooklyn. 

Wolferz was a Delegate of the Christian Association to Nash- 
ville in Sophomore year. He was a Bible Study Leader in 
Junior and Senior year. He was a member of the Barnard 
Literary Association and Christian Association. 

Wolferz will take up teaching as a profession after gradu- 
ating from college. His address is 497 Hart Street, Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 



JAMES MACDONALD WOOD, JR., was born in Brook- 
Ivn, N. Y., September 28, 1881, the son of James Mac- 
donald Wood, on the staff of the Brooklyn Daily Eagle, 
and of Susan (Price) Wood, He has lived all his hfe in Brook- 
lyn, and graduated from the Boys' High School of Brooklyn 
and the New York Training School for Teachers. 

Wood entered the class of 1908 in 1905 after teaching for 
three years in the New York Public Schools. After graduation 
he will remain at Columbia another year to obtain the Master's 
Degree, and after that will teach mathematics in the secondary 
schools. Wood's address is 162 Cleveland Street, Brooklyn, 
N. Y. 



WILLIAM LAWRENCE WOOD was born in New 
York City, January 10, 1887, the son of Chalmers 
Wood, Columbia '76, a lawyer, and Ellen G. Wood. 
He lived most of his life in Europe and New York City. He 
prepared for college at St. Mark's School, Southboro, Mass. 
Wood is a member of the A Fraternity. He played on his 
Freshman Football Team and rowed on the Freshman Crew 
Squad. In his Sophomore year he was a member of the Varsity 
Football and Crew Squads, Toastmaster of the Class Dinner 
and member of the Sophomore Show Committee. Wood, in his 
Junior year, was Editor-in-chief of the 1908 Columbian, As- 
sistant Manager of the Varsity Show, member of Junior Ball 
Committee and Assistant Secretary of King's Crown. In his 
Senior year he was a member of the Class Day Committee and 
Toastmaster of the Senior Dinner. He was a member of 
King's Crown, Philharmonic Society, Crewsters and Rowing 
Club. 

Wood will enter the Columbia Law School, as law will be his 
profession. His home address is 170 East 72d Street, New 
York City. 



WALTER BLIGH WOODBURY was born in Waraps- 
ville, N. Y., May % 1887, the son of Arthur O. 
Woodbury and of Neva E. Woodbury. He has 
spent his Hfe in Oneida, N. Y., and in New York City. He pre- 
pared for college at the Oneida High School. 

Woodbury took General Honors in Freshman, Sophomore 
and Junior years, and held the Alumni, Vanderbilt, Faculty and 
Morgan Scholarships successively. In Freshman year he was 
Secretary of the Freshman Debating Society. In Junior year 
he was elected to the B K Honorary Fraternity. In Senior 
year he was President of the Debating Union, Secretary of the 
Intercollegiate Triangular Debating League, and Vice-Presi- 
dent of the Churchmen's Association. He was a member of 
La Societe Fran^aise, Circulus Latinus, Barnard Literary Asso- 
ciation, Anthon Club and the Christian Association. 

Woodbury is undecided as to his occupation after leaving 
college. His address is Oneida, N. Y. 



JOHN W. STOCK was born in New York City, August 15, 
1885, the son of Lewis Stock, in business, and of Adelaide 
Stock. He received his preparation for college at the 
Morris High School. 

Stock ran on the Class Track Team in Freshman and Sopho- 
more years. He will teach Latin and Greek after graduating 
from college. His home is at 2710 Decatur Avenue, Fordham, 
New York City. 



CLASS ROLL 



*Left college before graduation. 
^Graduated at end of Junior year. 



Tom Mackenzie Alexander 
tWilliam Henry Allen, Jr. 
George Jardine Bagley 
Robert Harold Bagnell 
Harold Piirdy Banks 
*Earle J. Bassett 
Lee Herbert Berliner 
Abraham Bessie 
Harry Bijur 
Paul Billingsley 
tLouis Edward Bisch 
Isidore Bloom 
t Henry Blumberg 
Vincent Charles Bonnlander 
Kitchell Monckton Boorman 
Edwin Montefiore Borchardt 
William Gage Brady, Jr. 
*William Rogers Breck 
Clement S. Brainin 
Walter George Brandley 
Abraham Brill 
Barnard Sawyer Bronson 
Louis Alexander Brown 
George H. Bull 
Frank E. Burkhalter 
Dominick Cassetta 
Carlo Domenico Cella 
Clarence Orion Cheney 
Michael Martin Cohn 
Miles Chester Comstock 



*Harold A. Content 

*Theodore Hubert Crane 

Victor Willard Cutting 

Bennett Davis 

Irving Comes Demarest 

James Henry Donohue, Jr. 

Guyon L. C. Earle 

William Eastman 

Maurice Epstein 

George Bruce Fine 

Harry Potter Fish 

Harold Fowler 

George Frederick Gilbert, Jr. 

Harold Milton Goldblatt 

Morris Goodkind 

Edward Goodman 

Earnest Freeland GrifBn 

Jacob Grossman 

Edmond A. Guggenheim 

Robert Herman Hageman, Jr, 

Elwood Julius Harlam 

fLester Harrisson 

John Odell Hauser 

Alfred Herrmann 

B. Russell Herts 

Mortimer Henry Hess 

Fremont Amasa Higgins 

Samuel Thomson HoUister 

Alexander Holtzoff 

Nathaniel Stanislaus Hoyt 



Class Roll 



*E. Irving Huntington 
Geo. Washington Jaques, Jr. 
*Clarence Ray Jones 
William Alvin Kellog, Jr. 
Alfred Joyce Kilmer 
Frederic Garrabrant Kiser 
fFrederick William Kobbe 
Robert Frederick Lau 
fFrederick A. H. Leuchs 
*Leicester Crosby Lewis 
Albert Ernst Lobeck 
Winfred Scribner Mabee 
William John MacGreevy 
t George Miner Mackenzie 
*Reuben Mapelsden, Jr. 
Robert Palmer Marshall 
Hyman Rudolph Miller 
Ralph Whitney Mockridge 
Austin Philips Montgomery 
Henry Nelson Moore 
William Deacon Murphy 
Theodore Roosevelt Murray 
Royal Freeman Nash 
John Clement Negus 
*Jos. Christopher O'Mahoney 
Henri Cesar dinger 
William Burgess Osterhout 
Arthur Hamilton Otis 
Harold Palmer 
Daniel Poll 
WiUiam D. Pollock 
*Edward Evelyn Porter 
James Frederick Prince 



W. D. Pollock 
Latham Ralston Reed 
Harry Riegel 
Fred Hamilton Rindge, Jr. 
Marshall Robie 
Charles M. Rolker, Jr. 
Anthony Jesse Romagna 
Walter Joseph Rose 
Edward Joseph Rosenbaum 
Marcus A. Rothschild 
Edward Curtis Rouse 
Thomas Galtan Sessa 
Samuel Martin Schack 
Aghasie Samuel Shimmon 
Ira Skutch 
John Eyre Sloane 
Henry Mansfield Snevily 
Jacob Winford Stayton 
John Walter Stock 
Frank Robert Swartwout 
Edward Benjamin Townsend 
Addison Allen Van Tine 
Foster Ware 
John Neville Wheeler 
Clarence Edward Winchell 
Paul Wilham Henry Windels 
Byrd Douglas Wise 
Louis Ernst Wolferz 
James Macdonald Wood, Jr. 
William Lawrence Wood 
Walter Bligh Woodbury 
Edwin Hess Woarms 
Antonio Zaccara 



CLASS STATISTICS 

90 Ballots 

Weight (stripped), 140 Lbs. 

Height, 5 Ft. 9 In. 

Age at GradvMtion, 22 Years 1 Month. 

Birth Place — 

New York City, 46 ; New York State, other than New York 
City, 13 ; New Jersey, 11 ; Texas, 2 ; Russia, 2 ; Persia, 1 ; 
Ohio, 1 ; Missouri, 1 ; North Dakota, 1 ; Canada, 1 ; Iowa, 
1 ; Illinois, 1 ; Virginia, 1 ; Italy, 1. 
Home — 

New York City, 51 ; New York State, other than New York 
City, 12 ; New Jersey, 21 ; Connecticut, 1 ; Texas, 1 ; Penn- 
sylvania, 1 ; Virginia, 1 ; Mississippi, 1. 
Intended Occupation — 

Law, 21 ; Business, 17 ; Undecided, 15 ; Teaching, 14 ; Med- 
icine, 5 ; Engineering, 3 ; Ministry, 3 ; Chemistry, 2 ; Jour- 
nalism, 2; Consular Service, 1. 
Religion — 

Episcopal, 30 ; Presbyterian, 12 ; Congregationalist, 8 ; 
Catholic, 7 ; Dutch Reformed, 6 ; Baptist, 6 ; Jewish, 6 ; 
Methodist Episcopal, 4 ; Lutheran, 2 ; Natural, 1 ; Pan- 
theist, 1 ; Universalist, 1 ; Christian Scientist, 1 ; no prefer- 
ence, 2. 
Politics — 

Republican, 75 ; Democratic, 9 ; Independent, 4 ; Social- 
ist, 2. 

Favorite Studies English, History, Mathematics 

Most Difficult Course History A, Greek 1-2, Calculus 

Easiest Course. . . .Psychology 9, English 21-22, Philosophy A 

Most Valuable Course History A, Economics 1-2, Politics 

Favorite Professors Beard, Lord, Dunning 

Most Polished Professors Jackson, Odell, Mitchell 



Ci-ASN Statistics 

Ph'asdntt'st, Professors lyord. Heard, Odell 

Best Teachers Lord, Kcyscr, Dunning 

KadcHt Professors to Jiluff Lord, Oddl, Woodwortli 

Hardest. Professors to liluff . . . Shi'|)lu'rd, Ikrvoy, Van Aniringe 

Best DepiirtmeiUs llislory, (icnnan. Mat licniatics 

Worst Drpartmeuts I^'ronc^h, IMiysical lOdiu^ation, IMiysics 

Hardest Year Sophomore 

Easiest Year Senior 

Favorite Athletic Sports l*'ool,l)all, Hasehall, Tennis 

Favorite Pastimes Loafing, Reading, Walking 

Favorite I'rose Writers Thackeray, Kiphng, Dickens 

Favorite I'octs Tennyson, Wordsworth, Kipling 

Favorite Novels Vanity Fair, Ivanhoe, Huckleberry Finn 

Favorite Characters in History Lincoln, Napoleon, Caesar 

Favorite Newspapers, 

"New York Times," "New York Sun," "New York Herald" 

Favorite Actors S«)lhern, Ri)l)ertson, Warfield 

Favo rite Act resses, 

IMaiide Adams, Julia Marlowe, Ethel Harrymore 
Favorite Drinks. . .Water, Chocolate Ice Cream Soda, Whisky 
Favorite CoUef^cs next to Columbia. . .Princeton, Harvard, Yale 

Favorite Smokimj^ Totxtceo Imperial Cube Cut 

Ftivorite (\ife Lion Palace 

Smolturs ()() per cent. 

Drinkers 51) per cent. 

What Columhia Most Needs, 

Football, a suilabh* athletic field, an administration more 

just to undergraduate interests. 

liist All roKiid Man I'\)wler, Ware, Rindge 

Best Athlete Snevily, Hoorman, Fowler 

Done Most for (Utlumhia Ware, Fowler, Rindge 

1 J^ull 

Most Conceited \n\\ 'I'itie Y ,, , 

I aimer 



Class Statistics 

Best Dressed Reed, Brady, Banks 

Most Eccentric Bull 

( Bull 
Biggest Snob Van Tme | ^^j^^^j. 

Biggest Fusser Alexander, Fish, Bagnell 

Grouchiest Hauser, Van Tine, Bagnell 

Greatest Grind Bagley, Woodbury, Higgins 

Handsomest Reed, Rouse, Fowler 

Laziest Bagnell, Wheeler, Hauser 

Most Modest Tie between Banks, Billingsley, Snevily 

Best-natured Montgomery 

Noisiest Bull, Marshall, Bagnell 

Most Popular Man Fowler, Ware, Rindge 

Greatest Social Light Bull, Reed, Wood, W. L. 

Best Student Rindge, HoltzofF, Osterhout 

Most Likely to Succeed Murphy 

Wittiest Wood, W. L, 

Biggest Sport Bull, Brady, Stayton 

Most Lady-like Woodbury, Bull, Mockridge 

Biggest Politician Murphy, Higgins, Windels 



CLASSDAY SPEECHES 



PRESIDENT'S ADDRESS 

WE are here to-day to commemorate Class-day, the final 
gathering of the Class of 1908, as undergraduates 
in the halls of our Alma Mater, and we appreciate 
the feelings which have prompted those who are not members 
of this class to participate with us in holding these exercises. 

The College, with its old traditions and customs, has been 
the nucleus from which this large and magnificent University 
has expanded. The support of these customs, of which Class- 
day is the most cherished, has been our greatest pleasure, and 
in it we have formed those deep-rooted friendships and helpful 
relationships of college life which will influence so strongly our 
future lives. 

We have worked together and played together, and to-day, 
as we fight our fights and play our games over again, we hope 
that even you who are older will feel the spirit and thrill of 
youthful enthusiasm. 

It is but natural, as we bid farewell to the College to which 
we are bound by so many ties and associations, that our feel- 
ings of sorrow should be mingled with cheerfulness and hope, 
for there is so much in the past to be justly proud of, that, 
this afternoon as we review our four years of college life, we 
rejoice and aspire with confidence to greater achievements and 
higher aims. 

You are about to hear the history of the Class of 1908 — a 
record abounding in deeds performed in honor of our Alma 
Mater. The Prophet will reveal to you the future in prophe- 
cies which it would be as impossible for you to deny as for him 
to prove, and then the Presentation Orator will illustrate for 



President's Addeess 

you some individual eccentricities which often make rather than 
mar a man. 

Every class which graduates has its personality and individ- 
uality which leaves its mark upon the past and future ; and this 
afternoon, as you listen to my classmates, you will realize that 
our class has taken no small part in the history of Columbia 
College. We have done our best in the past as undergraduates, 
and, as we enter into the ranks of the graduates, our strength 
and loyalty shall be measured and recognized insomuch as we 
grasp the lifelong opportunity offered us — of serving and sup- 
porting, and pajang off some of the many obligations we owe 
the College which has been our home. 

Now, as we proceed with the exercises of Class-day, in behalf 
of the Class of 1908, I extend to all of you a hearty and most 
cordial welcome. 

Harold Fowler. 



CLASS HISTORY 

Ladies, Gentlemen and Fellow Students: 

Custom decrees that each year some member of the Gradu- 
ating Class shall record the deeds that the class has performed 
during its stay at the University. I have been selected for this 
purpose, and, in a meager way — for who could portray other- 
wise the glorious deeds and exploits of the Class of 1908? — I 
shall endeavor to do this. 

From time immemorial it has been the custom of my predeces- 
sors to give a highly exaggerated account of what their classes 
have done, painted in such vivid colors that their vei-y brilhancy 
has hidden the true worth of their deeds. Gentlemen, who could 
improve upon the history of the Class of 1908 by exaggeration.? 
Therefore I shall relate to you merely hard, cold facts which 
are thrilling enough to stir the blood of the most phlegmatic 
among us. 

The brilliant, aye, I might even say extraordinary, although 
of course vividly green collection of Freshmen, which have now 
grown into this dignified assemblage of Seniors before me, first 
appeared on the Columbia campus in the year of our Lord nine- 
teen hundred and four. Our greeting from the Faculty was all 
that could be desired, but, to our amazement and chagrin, the 
Sophomores were waiting for us armed with caps, rules and but- 
tons which they boomed at exorbitant prices. What a proud, 
overbearing crowd of Sophomores they were, and how they 
grinned when they sold us our white-topped caps ! That was 
the first of a long series of mistakes made by our rivals, for by 
our very caps we became organized and knew ourselves. 

Our first meeting was held in Havemeyer Hall, where we 
were marshaled by several Juniors and told that we must, ac- 
cording to the best regulated Freshman classes, break up the 
Sophomore smoker on the morrow. Of course the Juniors did 
not tell us how to do it, and likewise we were all unaware of 
Sophomore spies in the room. What cared we for these trivial 



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disadvantages when our minds were set on smashing that 
smoker? 

In the morning we met at various appointed places, and, again 
in charge of the trusty Juniors, advanced on the campus in a 
body, losing few of our number by parole or capture to the 
Sophomores who guarded the gates. After many brief scrim- 
mages the majority of us gained the campus, to the chagrin of 
the Sophomores, where we decided on a meeting place for the 
evening and prepared to smash the smoker that night. 

Several of our steadfast friends in the Class of 1906 were 
on hand to inform us where the "Sophs" would smoke on this 
sphere, and, like an army, we moved on Terrace Gardens. Here 
the brave Class of 1907 were intrenched at the top of a narrow 
stairway wide enough for only two fellows at a time, which was 
the only means of access. Nothing daunted, we advanced, and, 
although frequently hurled down, succeeded in pulling Soph 
after Soph with us until their fighting spirit was broken, and 
they re-enforced themselves with the major part of Bingham's 
bluecoats, who left the remainder of the city unguarded while 
they helped their friends, the Sophomores, evidently in dire dis- 
tress. After putting up a valiant although somewhat one-sided 
fight against the blackjacks, we retired in good order with a few 
cut heads, while the brave "Sophs" continued their festivities 
surrounded by a cordon of police seldom equaled in New York, 
In this combat, A. P. Montgomery, our present doughty track 
general, first distinguished himself by pulling six 1907 men 
downstairs at once, two of whom were Irish and one with red 
hair. 

The next day we were on hand for the flag rush, which is a 
sort of a hundred to one shot consolation prize for the Sopho- 
mores to win, arranged by the upper classmen. Although we 
almost captured the flag several times and had our rivals guess- 



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ing, yet against the heavy odds we were finally forced to yield 
the victory to our opponents. 

Now both classes stopped for a breathing spell and to attend 
classes occasionally before again going at each other's throats. 
In the meantime we elected our worthy first President, W. B. 
Robinson, who has since left us. 

We organized a football team, and under Chalmers Wood's 
coaching, better known as the famous "Bill's" brother, the 
eleven soon rounded into shape. On the day before Thanksgiv- 
ing we met the Sophomores, who, reinforced by several Varsity 
players, triumphed over us after a hard-fought game by the 
score of six to notliing. 

Hardly had the Sophomores caught their breath from the 
Fall fights when their eyes were opened by our cane spree sex- 
tet. We tied our older and more experienced rivals by win- 
ning three bouts, and they were fortunate to escape with this 
threadbare consolation. Our basketball quintet also defeated 
their team in grand style by the score of 13 to 11. 

Things went on quietly until January, when our older rivals 
decided to have a class dinner and wanted some of our leading 
members to be present, which we objected to rather strenuously, 
as was subsequently proven. The result was one of the most 
memorable fights in the history of Columbia, which took place 
on Broadway at the 116th Street Subway station while some of 
our officers were making their escape by the underground. What 
a fight it was ! The contestants were dragged through snow 
and slush, over the car tracks and through the mud, but ever 
with the 1908 men on top. The next day the metropolitan 
dailies lauded us for our noble victory over our more experi- 
enced rivals. 

Now the Sophomores began to realize that it was time to quit 
playing with a live wire, and, as Spring approached, we lived 
on in peace. Captain Everett Swartout, of our valiant baseball 



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nine, led his team to victory over our 1907 opponents by the 
overwhelming score of 7 to 3. 

After a hard year of fighting, the scrappiest class in the his- 
tory of Columbia closed its career as Freshmen by boating a 
crew that finished third at Poughkeepsie, beating out Pennsyl- 
vania, under Captain Harry Holbert's leadership. 

As is right and proper, the Class of 1908 returned to college 
in the Fall of 1905 a dignified and experienced aggregation of 
Sophomores determined to keep order among the entering 
class and restrain them if they became obstreperous. Yes, 
even spank those 1909 "Freshies" if necessary, but never to lose 
our dignity. Our smoker was held in a cafe on Third Avenue, 
where we took several captured 1909 men who were very amusing 
as entertainers when their classmates, marshaled by the Juniors, 
attacked us. They were being repelled in a furious set-to when 
the proprietor, becoming nervous over his fast disappearing 
china, summoned the police who, with the aid of the hickory, 
adjourned the session. 

The next day we took the flag rush in a perfunctory manner, 
handling our young opponents in easy style and handily defend- 
ing the 1908 pennant which waved proudly in the breeze at the 
end of the fray. 

Again we triumphed over the much- vaunted 1909 eleven in 
the annual football game by the score of 5 to 0, when our de- 
parted friend, "Rube" Maplesden, broke through and blocked a 
kick, scoring the only touchdown of the game on the play. This 
was the last game of football played by a Columbia team, and 
it was altogether fitting that our class should win it. 

The next achievement, which appears in our ponderous rec- 
ords, was the Sophomore show, entitled "A Tragedy," which 
was so highly artistic and intensely dramatic that Carnegie 
Lyceum was constantly filled, and through this medium the 
greater part of our Freshman crew debt was paid off^. 



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Our victories were repeated in the cane sprees, which we took 
by four bouts to three, and the pushball farce. The latter 
affair gave us the privilege of having a few of our younger 
rivals at the Class Dinner, where we awed them with our dig- 
nity. 

The year drove swiftly to its close, punctuated by more victo- 
ries and a few defeats. Our baseball team because of lack of 
practice went down to defeat before the 1909 team to the tune 
of 8 to 3, and it was a well-earned victory won by worthy op- 
ponents. 

Meantime we had elected George Mackenzie our Sophomore 
President, who worthily led the class through all its fights. Both 
George Mackenzie and G. L. C. Earle made the Varsity crew in 
their Sophomore year. So our second year at college had drawn 
to a close, and we were upper-classmen. 

In the Fall of 1906 we returned to the University prepared to 
set our Freshmen friends in the Class of 1910 an example 
worthy to be emulated. To be sure we "sic-ed" the "Freshies" 
on the smoker, and under our able direction they smashed up 
this affair in great style. Our most noteworthy achievements 
this year were two in number, the Columbian and the Junior 
Ball, both of which were highly successful. Who can ever 
forget that first Junior week which we inaugurated, and the 
merry times at the theater, basketball game and teas, all of 
which was brought to a climax by the elaborate Junior Ball held 
at Sherry's .P The Columbian, too, was highly artistic and at- 
tractive as well as keenly interesting, which was due largely to 
its energetic editor, William L. Wood. 

Again we came to the front in athletics, for George Macken- 
zie and Harry M. Snevily were in that famous 1907 crew that 
we all know so much about — the last crew that Columbia ever 
had. 

Our Senior year passed tranquilly, and here we are on the 



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eve of graduation, and when we look back it would seem that we 
had first come to the campus only last week, so quickly have 
those happy four years passed. What have we done in this, 
our last year? First, we have elected that sterhng good fellow 
and athlete, Harold Fowler, our President. We have been 
looked on as the leaders of the student body, and we have en- 
deavored to direct student thought and student activities in the 
right channels. 

We again have one man on the crew, Harry M. Snevily, that 
eight we all so much hope to see cross the line first in June. 
Austin Montgomery is at the helm in track affairs ; Foster Ware 
and Walter Brandley have elevated the hterary atmosphere of 
the campus through the medium of the Spectator as its editors. 

Now we will turn over many pages and chapters, for this his- 
tory is a massive volume, and my interpretation is a very con- 
densed abstract, and look at some statistics. Our average height 
is 5 feet 9 inches, most of us are twenty-two years one month 
old, and the happy medium of avoirdupois is 140 pounds. Most 
of us would rather play football than anything else for sport 
and loaf as a pastime, while 59 per cent, of our number drink 
occasionally, and 66 per cent, smoke. 

Acording to the vote, Harold Fowler is the best all-round 
member, Harry Snevily the best athlete, and Foster Ware has 
done most for Columbia. Our most conceited product, some 
believe, is Addison Van Tine, while Latham Reed is the best 
dressed and George Bull the most eccentric. Tom Alexander de- 
votes much of his time to giving the girls a treat, and he seems 
to be impartial in his affections, for he has been declared the big- 
gest fusser. John Odell Hauser wins the moody handicap, for 
he is the grouchiest, Avhile George Bagley is the biggest grind 
and Robert Bagnell is the laziest. Our class is swamped by mod- 
est men, for Harold Banks, Paul Billingsley and Harry Snevily 
are tied for first place, while that prince of good fellows, Austin 



Class History 

P. Montgomery, walked away with the vote for our best-natured 
member. George Bull was voted the noisiest, as well as the 
biggest social light and biggest sport ; Harold Fowler the most 
popular man, F. H. Rindge the best student, and William 
Deacon Murphy the most likely to succeed. "Bill" Wood is our 
wittiest associate, W. B. Woodbury the most lady-hke, and W. 
D. Murphy is following in the footsteps of his namesake, 
"Charlie," for he was elected the biggest politician. 

Now, gentlemen, our college days are over, and we will soon 
part on our several walks of life. I have tried to relate in my 
feeble way the incidents of the past four years, and what our 
class has done during its college career. We have always 
worked, I believe, with our Alma Mater at heart and kept Co- 
lumbia first in our minds. We have supplied men for athletic 
teams, and for two years we have been foremost in the fight for 
the restoration of that great game, football, as we were in sup- 
plying material for the team when that was one of our dearest 
hopes and joys. 

Let us hope that we will go out into the world and begin our 
career as Alumni with Columbia spirit and our Alma Mater's 
welfare uppermost in our minds, always remembering that our 
first duty is to put our college name in the highest place where 
it will remain unspotted down through all the ages. 

John Neville Wheelee. 



CLASS PROPHECY 

IMMEDIATELY following the momentary satisfaction 
which my election to the office of Class Prophet gave me, 
I was overcome by the consciousness of the immense diffi- 
culty and enormous responsibility which had devolved upon me. 
I had been commissioned to plunge into the unfathomable depths 
of life's secret workings and emerge with the knowledge of her 
impenetrable mysteries. Surely a tremendous and perilous un- 
dertaking. Numerous ways of evading the difficulty suggested 
themselves, the most prominent and natural one being to ven- 
ture a personal judgment based upon the most striking charac- 
teristics which so far my classmates had displayed. This solu- 
tion had almost won my approval when visions of Philosophy 
A and the theory of Probability rose before me and I abandoned 
the idea in despair. I then began reading the philosophies of 
India and consulted from time to time various spiritualists and 
mystics, hoping to discover with their aid some way of accom- 
plishing my task. Alas ! all my efforts were of no avail. My 
sleep became restless and I was frequently awakened during the 
night by haunting visions of Prophets and Seers, ranging from 
the time of Moses to the recent advent of Dowie. One night 
during this period of obsession, arriving home about 2 a. m. and 
realizing that the moment of my martyrdom was fast approach- 
ing, I lit my pipe and settling back comfortably in a cushioned 
chair, again tried to solve the problem. I had been musing thus 
for a long time when suddenly my eyes grew heavy and a thick 
vapor filled the room with a peculiar and intoxicating perfume. 
My senses reeled and I felt myself borne through the air with 
bewildering rapidity. 

{To be concluded on Class Day.) 

Jas. H. Donohue, Jr. 



PRESENTATION ORATION 

GREAT men always have their peculiarities. The great 
Class of 1908 contains a great number of very great 
men. So great are they that volumes could be written 
of the achievements of well-nigh any one of them. In the short 
space allotted me, I can only touch upon the peculiarities of a 
very few, not so much because these few are the greatest, but 
that as specimens they may convey to you an idea of the re- 
markable and wonderful Class of 1908. 

"Exhibit A" — ^Walter G. Brandley, "The man who made the 
Commons famous." Walter is a journalist. His peculiarity is 
that he is never satisfied unless he is investigating something. 
He delights in investigations. This year, when he became editor 
of the Spectator, he found the whole Spectator Board looking 
lean and thin. He immediately fixed upon the Commons as the 
cause of this hungry appearance. So the Spectator stealthily 
and secretly started an investigation. Some Commons food 
was brought, and at midnight, in the innermost recesses of the 
Spectator office, it Avas investigated. The result was astounding. 
It was found that the holes in the cheese in the Commons sand- 
wiches were ^ inch wide, while the holes in the cheese from Yale 
Dining Hall were but 7-16ths of an inch wide. The outcome was 
a scalding publicity-bath for the Commons. The Spectator laid 
bare the inside methods of Frenzied Grub-making. And what 
happened .P Before the expose Commons sandwiches were like 
this (presenting an ordinary sandwich, the bread cut crosswise 
from the loaf). After the investigation, the sandwiches were 
like this (presenting a sandwich, the bread cut lengthwise from 
the loaf). 

Four years ago there was no purer and holier spot on the 
Campus than Earl Hall. It was the gathering place of stead- 
fast souls, devout and pure ; a hallowed, unblemished sanctum 
sanctorum. But then Frederick H. Rindge, whom I now intro- 
duce to you, became connected with the Christian Association. 



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He meant to get the heathen Into the hall and to rope them into 
the Association. I blush to tell you what he did, but I must. 
Soon after he appeared, smoking was allowed in that conse- 
crated spot, and Earl Hall became more popular. Next, pool 
tables were installed to catch more heathen ; Earl Hall still more 
popular, converts every hour. Rumor has it that the other day 
some men were found playing a peculiar game with pennies in 
the basement. As a symbol of the sporting tendencies which 
Fred Rindge has introduced into Earl Hall, and with the sug- 
gestion that if he desires to get enough converts to start a cru- 
sade, he open one of these at every Bible class, I present him 
with this (giving him a bottle of champagne). 

The "Little Nemo" of 1908— Austin P. Montgomery. With 
all of his other multifarious duties, Austin is connected with the 
Track Team. He is its Manager and a clever manager is he. 
Why, he can squeeze a contribution out of a Senior at Com- 
mencement time. But the particular trait which we wish to call 
attention to in "Monte" is that he is an unusually graceful 
cross-country runner. There is a little story about Monte. He 
was jogging down Riverside Drive one day, when a beautiful 
young damsel remarked to a companion : "Why, look at the 
pretty man. He runs like a gazelle." A Columbia Freshman 
overheard this remark and looked up the word "gazelle" in 
Brander Mathews' Simphfied Spelling Dictionary. He found it 
meant "a little dear." I, therefore, give Mr. Montgomery this 
memento as a reminder of his achievements as a cross-country 
runner. (Handing him a small deer.) 

Orators are born, not made. I now ask you to gaze upon a 
second Demosthenes, Fremont A. Higgins, who was born in time 
to become a member of the illustrious Class of 1908. Higgins 
can orate on demand. Tears or laughter does he draw from his 
auditors as he wills. All competitors fall before him, stunned 
by the thunderbolts of his vociferous eloquence. It is no more 



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than just that upon this momentous occasion he should receive 
a portrait of his only living equal, William Jennings Bryan. 

The next exhibit is Foster Ware. Until a few months ago we 
all had hopes that Foster would become a great man, but then 
he became inoculated with the "Barn Dance germ." Life since 
that time is one long, joyous barn dance for him. "He just 
can't make his feet behave." Now what can be more fitting than 
to barn dance to the old tune, "Where are you going, my 
pretty maid.^*" And what is more appropriate than to do the 
barn dance with such a maid as this. (Presenting him with ad- 
vertisement of Horlick's Malted Milk, a large cardboard figure 
of a milkmaid with pail and milking stool.) 

We have with us to-day something which would gladden the 
heart of our Chief Executive, Theodore Roosevelt — a college 
man in politics — Paul William Henry Windels. In the far- 
off town of Brooklyn this young man is a power. Never were 
voters more loyal to a chieftain than are his followers to him. 
It is only his natural modesty and his reluctance to leave the 
halls of his Alma Mater that have prevented him from becoming 
an Alderman long ere this. And what is the secret of his suc- 
cess.'* It is something which has caused the rise of many a poli- 
tician, politicist and publicist. At election time he makes it a 
point to kiss every baby in his district. And then? Why, the 
fond mothers think he is the greatest man that ever lived, and 
force all the fond fathers to vote as he says. In order that 
during the lull between elections he may not lose his art as a 
baby-kisser, we give him this rag doll, upon which to practise. 

(Will Mr. William L. Wood please step forward?) 

No great body of men to-day is complete without a toast- 
master. Somebody is needed to preside at their banquets. But 
alas ! good toastmasters are few and far between. The renowned 
Class of 1908, however, has one par excellence. Such a toast- 
master is he, such introductions does he give the speakers, that 



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no one whom he calls upon for a toast can fail to speak, and 
speak well. He is a wonder at making people talk — a veritable 
hypnotist. On behalf of the Class of 1908, and as a reward for 
the illustrious services and marked ability he has displayed, I 
present him with this appointment as teacher of elocution and 
public speaking in Barnard College. 

There is great art in carrying a cane. There is a member of 
this class who possesses a cane, likewise that art. His name is 
George H. Bull. He is the master of every swing. Long 
swings, short swings, circles, hyperbolas, parabolas, he makes 
them all with equal ease. No drum-major ever manipulated his 
baton better than George Bull does his cane. He has a special 
swing for warm days — an easy, unexacting one. For cool days 
he has a snappy, brisk circulation accelerator. As a fitting ap- 
preciation of his talents, I deliver to his care this memorial, and 
with the hope that its handle will taste as delectably as the han- 
dle of the cane he usually carries. (Giving him a large candy 
cane.) 

Harold Fowler, 

Kitchell M. Boorman, 

Henry M. Snevily are also to be mentioned when this speech 
is delivered, but as they are on the Class Book Committee, noth- 
ing about them appears here. 

George Washington Jaques, Jr. 



VALEDICTORY ADDRESS 

Friends and Fellow-classmates: 

We have all heartily enjoyed the more or less witty remarks 
which have thus far characterized these exercises of the Class 
of 1908, and it may at first appear incongruous for me to 
attempt the presentation of thoughts more serious in their im- 
port. In these moments of formal leave-taking, however, this 
does not seem out of place, and our friends will bear with us if 
we give full expression to those feelings which lie nearest our 
hearts. 

Four years we have lived together as members of a great 
University. Four years we have struggled onward, with minds 
intent on that goal which has finally been reached. Now that 
we are here, the significance of Hawthorne's words is borne in 
upon us: "How often is it the case, when impossibihties have 
come to pass and dreams have condensed their misty substance 
into tangible realities, that we find ourselves calm and even 
coldly self-possessed, amid circumstances which it would have 
been a delirium of joy, or agony, to anticipate." Yes — how 
natural it all seems, and how readily our thoughts turn toward 
other goals as yet unattained. As Freshmen, when we attended 
exercises similar to these, we gazed with respect and admiration 
at the grave Seniors, and wondered if we could ever become so 
dignified. Yet to-day brings to a close our four years ; our 
turn has come to say farewell to the intimate associations of the 
college we have learned to love. In other years the class-day 
exercises meant little to us ; now they possess a meaning far 
deeper than words can express. Graduation has proved not an 
impossibility, not a dream — but a reaHty. 

As we look back over our college activity, shall we not be 
honest with ourselves? Do we not see many duties carelessly 
performed, many opportunities forever lost, many things that 
might have been and now may never be.'' We acknowledge the 
mistakes and failures, but even they have been factors in the 



Valedictory Address 

molding of character. Let us, therefore, cast aside our re- 
grets and recall our errors only in so far as we or others may 
profit by them. Let us think rather of that which has afforded 
us most pleasure — our social life and the true friendships we 
have formed. Some of us have felt deeply that "so long as we 
love, we serve ; so long as we are loved by others ... we are 
indispensable, and no man is useless while he has a friend." 

To the Undergraduates we desire to leave this farewell mes- 
sage : Li no university can everything be perfect, and in every 
university will be found some men who actually take pleasure in 
complaining. Remember that "Grumblers never work, and 
workers never grumble." "If you don't see what you want, 
work for it" should be the motto of every Columbia student. 
You are here not merely to get, but to give ; and believe us when 
we say that those things, which you may be privileged to do for 
your University, will prove the most enduring. So live, there- 
fore, that when your college course is ended, you may justly 
think of what you have done for Columbia as well as of what 
Columbia has done for you. So live that when you stand where 
we of 1908 now stand, you will have no regrets. So live that 
when you are called to enter the field of world-activity, you may 
respond with a strong mind, a clean heart, a pure soul, a noble 
purpose; hallowed by an undying love for your Alma Mater. 
Cherish these ideals in your hearts, manifest them in your lives, 
and we as Alumni will be proud of you. 

Fellow-classmates — As we turn from college days now past 
and vainly endeavor to see into the days that are to 
come, shall we not resolve to be, above everything else, men.'' 
Columbia has helped us in countless ways, but most of all she 
has helped us toward manhood. Rousseau once said: "In the 
natural order of things, all men being equal, their common voca- 
tion is manhood, and whoever is well-trained for that cannot 
fulfill badly any position which demands manhood." We have 



Valedictory Address 

been well-trained. Now, as never before, we realize the debt of 
gratitude which we owe our beloved Dean and the Professors, 
who have guided us during these formative years and have ex- 
erted upon us such a lasting influence for good. We have caught 
glimpses of that which is noblest in life, and, it is hoped, have 
resolved to make our supreme moments more constant. The 
Class of 1908 is about to join that larger class of Columbia 
men in the great University of Life. Let us not forget that a 
college is known more by the character of her graduates than 
by the activity of her undergraduates. As Alumni shall we not 
uphold more loyally than ever the standards of Columbia, and 
remain forever true to her name ? During these closing days of 
our college career, let us overcome any prejudices or differences 
we may have, and all be welded together in one great love for 
Alma Mater! Then in future years, as we are privileged to 
meet at reunions, we can with more sincere enthusiasm call to 
mind these days which will ever remain the happiest of our 
lives. 

It must be recognized that a college man has a personality, an 
individuality, a prestige of his own, and that as Columbia grad- 
uates we immediately rise in the world's estimation. For this 
very reason we should realize the great responsibilities which 
have been laid upon us, and not permit our abilities to be ren- 
dered ineffectual by an overmastering consciousness of our own 
importance. Much need is there to be thankful, rather than 
egotistic. Perhaps the most valuable lesson we have learned in 
college is : that our real education has just begun. Our capacity 
to deal with practical situations has not yet been adequately 
tested. Necessarily much of our study has been theoretical in 
its nature, and at times may have tended to lead us away from 
a sympathetic appreciation of the problems in human Hfe. We 
should at once bring ourselves into more vital contact with the 
actuahties of life, by putting into practice the theories which 



Valedictory Address 

constitute so large a part of our mental equipment. Let us use 
our education not to climb over others, but to help them to 
climb. In the words of Huxley, let us determine "to do the 
thing we ought to do, when it ought to be done, whether we 
want to do it or not." Such an earnest spirit of service would 
still the disquietude in many hearts, and would do much to in- 
culcate an unwavering devotion to the highest principles of 
humanity ; and this after all is the message we need most. 
And so, fellow-classmates, as we say farewell, let us resolve to 
be loyal Alumni, patriotic citizens, and true men. 

Fred. Hamilton Rindge, Je. 



IVY ORATION 

Fellow-classmates and Friends : 

In accordance with immemorial academic custom, we are gath- 
ered here this afternoon to plant the ivy of the Class of 1908 
and to dedicate it to the memory of our undergraduate life. 
Around this vine, which we leave here as a memorial of our class, 
clusters all the wealth of sacred tradition. It is a mute record 
of our student life at Morningside — a record possessing the 
deepest significance for us. It represents the care-free happy 
days which have passed away — days to be of fondest memories, 
memories of work well done, of earnest desires consummated, of 
precious enduring friendships formed. 

These past four years have been the formative period of our 
lives — the period when we have been molded to approximate Co- 
lumbia's ideal of what a college-bred man should be. To others, 
however, who are destined to follow us, 1908 will be but a figure 
to express a certain period in the academic cycle. Only a few 
memories of our presence and of our achievements will linger 
after our departure. Our names, it is true, will be inscribed 
upon the rolls of the university, but in the active ever-changing 
life of the class-room and campus our influence will soon be but 
little felt. It is, therefore, with the idea of preserving some 
concrete evidence of our career at Columbia, some memorial of 
our student life within her halls, that we plant this ivy. 

And now, fellow-classmates, let us for a moment turn aside 
from these precious memories of days past and devote our at- 
tention to the life before us. We are pausing to-day upon the 
threshold of a new career. Behind us is the record of work 
well done, of disappointments suffered, of triumphs won, of 
lofty ideals realized ; before us is the uncertainty of the future. 
The period of our undergraduate life is passed ; never must pass 
the period of our fervent loyalty to Columbia and to the princi- 
ples which she teaches. In the days to come, let us ever remem- 
ber that the obligations of the future are just as binding, just 



Ivy Oration 

as imperative, as those of the past. The superior training which 
a college education affords, entails unavoidable duties. Our 
Alma Mater has given us of her best. She has molded our char- 
acters and inspired in us the love of righteousness, and now, at 
the last, she bids us "God-speed" and sends us forth with her 
blessing. We must strive, then, to justify her loving care. We 
must demonstrate that her confidence has not been misplaced, 
and that the men of 1908 are worthy to be enrolled in that long 
procession of alumni which includes many of the nation's great- 
est sons. Let us ever bear in mind that the Columbia of Hamil- 
ton, of Livingston, of scores of other illustrious names, is our 
Columbia also, and that they who have gone before us expect — 
demand — that we shall ever strive to profit by their example 
and uphold their ideals. Not to every one of us, true, is it 
given to fill such mighty spheres of usefulness, but we may all, 
regardless of our position or ability, do our small part in up- 
lifting the tone of our national life by purging our politics ; in 
elevating the conditions of our social life by raising the moral 
standards of society ; in making our world better by having lived 
in it. The adherence to such principles as these will inevitably 
mark us as worthy sons of the great college who honors us with 
her degree and of the class whose ivy it is now my privilege to 
plant. 

Upon the campus we leave this ivy as a symbol of our beloved 
class. As it draws nourishment from the ground, so have we 
drawn and so shall we continue to draw from our Alma Mater, 
the inspiration for lives devoted to unselfish noble ends. Here, 
before we part, while for the last time as undergraduates we 
are gathered together, let us pledge ourselves to the reahzation 
of those ideals which are the priceless heritage of all Columbia 
men. Inspired with this determination, we hope and trust that 
in the years to come, as our ivy will adorn this wall, so will the 
Class of 1908 add to our college another touch of beauty, grace 
and vitality. William John MacGeeevy. 



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